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They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.
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They and whirled
They burned the dry grass on ridges between rice fields while children whirled around cans full of holes, through which charcoal fire blazed.
They and saw
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 saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.
They saw completely masculine and obviously virile men performing with incredible grace.
They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.
They saw the Anglican Church and the aristocracy as balances against commercial wealth.
They then proceeded to the final with a tied match in the semi-final ( also against South Africa ) where a mix-up between South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald saw Donald drop his bat and stranded mid-pitch to be run out.
They saw marriage as a state of bondage that could only be cured by celibacy.
They failed to make the playoffs after losing at Philadelphia in the final regular season game which saw the Eagles reach the playoffs instead.
They saw to it that he received an excellent education at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, but he was never a good student: he had a facial tumor that impeded his speech, and he was always preoccupied with drawing.
They saw immediately that while vendor A might have a really nice analog simulation environment, vendor B had a much better PCB or silicon layout auto-router.
They took it upon themselves to protect the Church from what they saw as a heretical change to their faith, enforced by revolutionaries.
They saw the material world as created through an intermediary being ( demiurge ) rather than directly by God.
They also saw an elite convert to Judaism ( the Khazars ), only to disappear as the centers of power in the lands once occupied by that elite fell to the people of Rus and then the Mongols.
They increasingly saw their role as to watch the army rather than to raise its effectiveness.
They saw no limbs, possibly because of a dip in the road obscuring the animal's lower portion.
They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.
They saw in the aggressive Kzinti a major threat, and orchestrated the events that led to the humans getting FTL ships and thereby ensuring the human victory of the first war.
They never saw the stars until they were enslaved by the Kzinti.
They saw through the planks of his wooden bridge, making a precarious gap, then taunt him by making goat noises, until he runs outside.
They do not have set or sharpened teeth, and may have grain running parallel to the back edge of the saw, rather than parallel to the teeth.
They were cheaper than hard drives ( blank media especially so: though each had a cost of $ 150 to Canon, Jobs ' typically forthright negotiations saw Canon agree to a retail of only $ 50 apiece ) but slower ( with an average seek time of 96 ms ).
They both saw human freedom in terms of the Libertarian philosophy: man's choice is not decided by God's choice, thus God's choice is " conditional ", depending on what man chooses.
They marked the apex of Pisa's power, but also spurred the resentment of cities like Lucca, Massa, Volterra and Florence, who saw their aim to expand towards the sea thwarted.
They saw all of these as institutions to be destroyed.
They and him
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They dragged him inside the building.
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 stared at him.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They were pursuing him.
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