When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

Now they were riding to kill him.

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

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

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.

But they were starting a new life.

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

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Cacti can be treelike ( arborescent ), meaning that they typically have a single more-or-less woody trunk topped by several to many branches.

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

The album topped the charts, and Led Zeppelin's subsequent concert tour of North America in 1973 broke records for attendance, as they consistently filled large auditoriums and stadiums.

Like stamped steel turntables, they were topped with rubber.

In Honduras, enchiladas look and taste very different from those in Mexico ; they are not corn tortillas rolled around a filling, but instead are flat, fried, corn tortillas topped with ground beef, salad toppings ( usually consisting of cabbage and tomato slices ), a tomato sauce ( often ketchup blended with butter and other spices such as cumin ), and crumbled or shredded cheese.

In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement ( the stylobate ) of a temple without a base ; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves ; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam ( entablature ) that they carried.

Brunel's original plan proposed they be topped with then-fashionable sphinxes, but the ornaments were never constructed.

" Though they topped some international charts and local radio countdowns, Creedence Clearwater Revival never had a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit — though both " Proud Mary " and " Bad Moon Rising " climbed to number one in Record World, a chart at least equal to Billboard's in prestige in the late Sixties.

Billed as the " Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington ", they topped the charts in 1958 with Tea For Two Cha-Cha.

gained mainstream recognition when they released their first English single " All the Things She Said ", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland and other European countries.

After spending six seasons in the Second Division, Sunderland were promoted to Division One in the 1975 – 76 season ; they topped the table over Bristol City by three points.

All-beef Chicago-style hot dogs are topped with mustard, fresh tomatoes, onions, sport peppers, bright green relish, dill pickles, and celery salt, but they exclude ketchup.

The ground flies beneath their horses ' feet ; gathering speed at every stride, they dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel.

In Belgium, most waffles are served warm by street vendors and dusted with confectioner's sugar, though in tourist areas they might be topped with whipped cream, soft fruit or chocolate spread ( a practice considered ' inauthentic ' by some local connoisseurs ).

Sometimes they contain sultanas and currants as well, and the iced bun is topped with an icing and sometimes filled with jam.

Potato pancakes may be topped with a variety of condiments, ranging from the savory ( such as sour cream or cottage cheese ) to the sweet ( such as apple sauce or sugar ), or they may be served ungarnished.

In 2012, they topped the Media Rich List with £ 2. 25bn.

That period was generally a low one for the club, even though they have topped the First Division twice in the last few seasons.

Longitudinal sleepers such as Brunel's baulk road are topped with iron or steel rails that are lighter than they then might otherwise be because of the support of the sleepers.

Chevrons can be topped with a fleur-de-lys, and ordinaries with non-straight edges ( particularly if they are dancetty or engrailed ) can have the points topped with demi fleurs-de-lys.

Most tuques are tapered ; they sometimes have ear flaps, and may be topped with a pom-pom ( this style of tuque is sometimes referred to as a bobble hat, boggan or sherpa ).

He missed just one game of the 2005 – 06 season that saw Reading win promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history, as they topped the Championship with a record 106 points.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Led by Bill Doolin, these mobsters specialized in train robberies but as a sideline they looted stores and robbed banks, making liberal use of their guns.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

Operating side by side, together they helped shore up the nation-state.

to some degree they are being supplanted by a concept of national responsibility.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

but they obviously mean by this, not a Negro personality, but a Negro type.

Movements unfold freely because they are uninhibited by emotional bias or purposive drive.

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.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.