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They were tried in an oyer and terminer court without the benefit of a jury, and four were convicted.
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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 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 and tried
They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
They tried to sell 'em on economy and simple merit.
They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.
They also tried to obtain a fee from him for leaving.
They note that the discoverers of the two planets around HW Virginis tried to circumvent the naming problem by calling them " HW Vir 3 " and " HW Vir 4 ", i. e. the latter is the 4th object – stellar or planetary – discovered in the system.
They tried to do this in a very secret manner.
They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).
They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.
They tried to rescue him in a boat, but were able only to drag up his corpse.
They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.
They later tried infecting people with " direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men's penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded ... or in a few cases through spinal punctures ".
They made us want to make our music more interesting and more complex and we tried to blend that with our own personalities to see what we could come up with that was indisputably us.
" They tried everyone else singing it except me " Lemmy later said.
They were tried and sentenced to prison in December, 1996.
They slew 7, 000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.
They first tried going to the Court of Chancery and applying for injunctions prohibiting other publishers from printing their works, and this was initially successful.
They secretly tried and convicted collaborators during the Cylon Occupation and executed them.
They killed the Minister, who tried to shoot them, during the takeover.
They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.
They demanded that he be tried by the ' Congress of Greeks ', rather than in Athens, although it seems that in the end he was actually summoned to Athens to stand trial.
They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.
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