They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

They were running from something.

They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.

They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.

They were about a mile off ; ;

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

They were free.

They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.

They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.

They were all good men.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

They were already swollen to bursting.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

They are reluctant to use it because they fear to introduce uncertainty into the law.

They typically sought to confirm rather than falsify their hypotheses, and were reluctant to consider alternatives.

" They were trying to push us into TV, and we were reluctant ," Jim Jordan told an interviewer many years later.

They reasoned that a small nation like North Vietnam, with a tiny industrial base that was just emerging after the First Indochina War, would be reluctant to risk its new-found economic viability to support the insurgency in the south.

They then travelled on to Algeciras, where they stayed some days to reconnoiter the approaches to Gibraltar, and returned to Germany with the conclusion that Franco's regime was reluctant to enter the war.

They had nothing like that amount of land available and the existing owners, the Māori, the native people of the country, were very reluctant to sell their land and not inclined to trust the New Zealand Company promises.

They can become secretive and reluctant to seek help because they fear that seeking help will force them to confront their insecurity.

They were also reluctant to do more than a few gigs per month, and so the band only came together for occasional performances or for ' demo ' sessions at Central Sound studios in Denmark St.

They were reluctant to commit themselves to another major project at the time when they were approached by their distributor, and owner since May 1941, Paramount Pictures.

They can have a positive effect on the phobia of the patient involved, and can often aid in helping them overcome the fear, although people with emetophobia who were asked whether they would try an exposure treatment were reluctant and perhaps skeptical as to whether it would work.

They are reluctant to fly, preferring to swim for cover.

They forced a deep strike into Flanders on a reluctant Maurice in the direction of the port of Dunkirk that had grown into a hotbed of privateers that did much damage to Dutch shipping.

They do not interpret statutes to conflict with legislative intent, and courts have been reluctant in particular to " read out " provisions for this reason.

They cite geopolitical circumstances such as the inland position of the capital, the size of the country itself, the numerous internal custom barriers, the lack of cohesiveness of the merchant communities of the Atlantic coast set in their parochial ways and reluctant to invest significantly in a large-scale company that trade with the distant East Indies called for.

They are more reluctant to be involved in social activities and romantic relationships and more likely to develop poor self-esteem and self-image related to their physical limitations as well as cognitive disabilities, though such habitual thinking is shown to decline when they feel they are accepted and supported by their peers.

They follow Song Jiang back to Liangshan but Song is still reluctant to join the outlaw band.

They were also reluctant to accept the credibility of the organisation, believing it to be a front for the Gestapo, very much due to the Venlo Incident in late 1939, when two British agents were kidnapped yards inside Dutch territory and spirited across into Germany, where they remained in captivity until the last week of the war.

They are reluctant to reveal this information because they are ashamed, since one of their starseeds created the Thrint, which destroyed nearly all intelligent life in the galaxy several billion years ago.

They are reluctant to reveal this information because they are ashamed, since one of their starseeds created the Thrint, which destroyed nearly all intelligent life in the galaxy several billion years ago.

They enlist the reluctant Pratt to their cause, and show him how their scientific expertise and outlandish inventions ( frequently based on ideas from Pratt's books ) can bolster the impression that Pratt really is Nicodemus Legend.

They are reluctant to talk to her and attempt to convince her that Mark's suicide was just that, so that no further investigation is needed.

They were long reluctant to accept the authority of central governments.

They tend to be reluctant to be government officer and legislators.