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They were silent for a few moments.
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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 expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` 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 and silent
Paul Beaver of Jane's defence publications commented that, " They are not only a silent killer, they also have a psychological effect ".
They organized the Women in Peacebuilding Network ( WIPNET ), and issued a statement of intent: " In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peace!
They staged silent nonviolence protests and forced a meeting with President Charles Taylor and extracted a promise from him to attend peace talks in Ghana.
They have remained silent as long as they were exhausted from the long fight, and taken by surprise by the audacity of the revolutionaries of 1918 and 1919.
They co-starred in three silent films together His Bridal Night ( 1919 ), Sinners ( 1920 ) and A Dark Lantern ( 1920 ); the couple had one child, Donald.
They make a vampire movie of their own, and they tell a backstage story about the measures that a director will take to realize his vision ", and that Dafoe " embodies the Schreck of Nosferatu so uncannily that when real scenes from the silent classic are slipped into the frame, we don't notice a difference.
They are amongst the most vocal of all birds, calling continuously in most situations, so much so that they are only ever silent for specific reasons such as avoiding predators or when intruding on a rival's territory.
They are often used in long silent passages which are not divided into separate bars to indicate a rest of two bars ( Read 1969, 101 ).
They point out, for example, that many schools have entire class periods dedicated to silent study, which can equally be used for silent prayer or meditation.
They are typically silent even when displaying, although a soft gue-gue-gue may occasionally be given.
They are silent except for a single " I'm only three and a half years old ", and retreat when one of Jones great cats shows up-a Rube Goldberg by day, drunken roisterer by night.
They were constructed without nails and the soles were only stiffened at the toes, making them nearly silent.
They are very silent except at the nest where they produce grunts and croaks and a disyllabic chigi-chigi-chigi.
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