My men, they all left me.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Soon they were all shouting greetings, exchanging smiles, and rejoicing to think that they were all back together again.

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

`` Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some bar if he's here at all '', Cobb declared, glancing along the street as they stretched their legs.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.

The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

Above all, they will stop in the middle of anything, anywhere, to hear or quote some poetry.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

" Needless to say, he mentioned Leonidovich's, " mistakes and failings ," but hastened to add that, " they do not, however, prevent us from recognizing the fact that he was a great poet.

" Cyprian's secret departure from Carthage was interpreted by his enemies as cowardice and infidelity, and they hastened to accuse him at Rome.

Such manure had too much hastened the growth of the vines: in two or three years they had exhausted the potash in the formation of their fruit leaves and wood ; so that none remained for the future crops, as shavings of horn contain no potash.

While the Horseshoe Falls absorbed the extra flow, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers studied the riverbed and mechanically bolted and strengthened any faults they found ; faults which would, if left untreated, have hastened the retreat of the American Falls.

He hastened to create an alliance with the Americans from fear that they might jointly attack France with the British.

Like Some Like It Hot, Preminger's films were direct assaults on the authority of the Production Code and, since they were successful, hastened its abandonment.

Supporters of the campaign have argued that the action brought to an end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's Albanian population, and that the bombing campaign hastened ( or caused ) the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government, which they saw as responsible for the international isolation of Yugoslavia, many war crimes, and gross human rights violations.

Gush Emunim's beliefs were based heavily on the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that secular Zionists, through their conquests of Eretz Israel, had unwittingly brought about the beginning of the Messianic age, which would culminate in the coming of the messiah, which Gush Emunim supporters believe can be hastened through Jewish settlement on land they believe God has allotted to the Jewish people as set forth in the Hebrew Bible.

When the news reached the chiefs of the Isles, who had already assembled to appoint him king, they were inflamed with great rage, hastened against him, and coming upon him in the night, set fire to the house in which he was, and destroyed, partly by the sword and partly by the flames, Ingemund and all his followers.

Pausing only in Tauranga to borrow guns from the British, they hastened onward to Rotorua.

Workers disliked the paraffin-like material forming on rigs because it caused them to malfunction, but they used it on cuts and burns because it hastened healing.

Eulogius and Maras then hastened to join their companions in Constantinople, where they found a powerful party strongly hostile to the Eastern bishops, Theodoret in particular.

But they never gave them a chance to do this, but they only hastened them, until they granted the Russians the chance ( to attack them ), and so they destroyed them.

The fresh troops hastened towards the battlefield, where they soon met their compatriots retreating from Cloyd's Mountain.

When they reached Japan on 12 September 1899, he received news of the sudden death of his father, and hastened home as speedily as possible to find himself, by his father's will, the head of his branch of the family.

The installation of a subsidiary Black Sheep Turkomans line there hastened the downfall of the Jalayirids whom they had once served.

The popularization of LSD outside of the medical world was hastened when individuals such as Ken Kesey participated in drug trials and liked what they saw.

The Roman soldiers did not break Jesus ' legs, as they did to the other two men crucified ( breaking the legs hastened the crucifixion process ), as Jesus was dead already.

Persuading Phillip to accompany them, they hastened back to the cabin of Mr. Copus, and, taking the latter's family, they all proceeded as rapidly as possible to Mr. Lambright's.

They hastened along an Indian trail, near where the village of Lucas now stands, and stopped at the cabin of David Hill, where they remained until the next morning, when, accompanied by the family of Hill, all proceeded to the block-house at Beam's mill.

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

Of course the higher officials could add or place a name on the list wherever they wished.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

We have 2,500 such projects, and they add up to a lot more than just roads and wells and schools.

`` How often do they add up to headlines??

It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment.

Notably, each workshop inscribed its name on the part they manufactured to add traceability for quality construction.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Thus they add two equivalents of bromine whereas an alkene adds only one equivalent.

Ideally an amplifier increases the power of a signal without otherwise altering it ; practical amplifiers have finite distortion and noise which they invariably add to the signal.

Now, due to physical properties of interference, if two signals at a point are in phase, they add to give twice the amplitude of each signal, but if they are out of phase, they subtract and give a signal that is the difference of the amplitudes.

The key for a witness is to understand the facts that they believe to be the case and not add additional thoughts to those facts, lest they be used to undermine the testimony.

A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur.

Further, as they are vector fields, all magnetic and electric field vectors add together according to vector addition.

Minor dishes may be served before, during, or after a meal, to add interest and variety ; they are the appetizers, side dishes, desserts, tid-bits — never to be served as main dishes.

The standard adjustment of a running martingale is to set the rings at a height where they do not engage and add leverage to the reins when the horse carries its head at the proper height.

There are other training devices that fall loosely in the martingale category, in that they use straps attached to the reins or bit which limit the movement of the horse's head or add leverage to the rider's hands in order to control the horse's head.

The other factor reducing the attractiveness of hedge funds in a diversified portfolio is that they tend to under-perform during equity bear markets, just when an investor needs part of their portfolio to add value.

Other methods can be used to take over a channel, though they are unrelated to flaws in IRC itself ; for example, cracking the computers of channel operators, compromising channel bot shell accounts, having someone add you to a channel service's userlist, or obtaining services passwords through social engineering.

As they worked, construction teams came upon an abandoned set of rooms containing 25, 000 historical items ; these were incorporated into the rest of the structure to add a new exhibition zone.