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They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
They blame us for all their troubles.
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.
They reined in there, Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
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 thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They don't go for bull-like muscle, as a rule.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
They ran for three hours.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;
They are full of contempt for the institution of matrimony.
Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.
They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.
They too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

They and their
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 had pistols in their hands.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.
They despise males who brag of their strength ; ;
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They know little about their machinery beyond mechanical details.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.
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.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

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