How to use "them" in a sentence

One of them, Butch Cassidy, was very famous

Some of them are more than five thousand years old

I ask them to come with me.

Stuck between them, as far as I can see, are boulders of different sizes

The good news is that I should be able to climb over many of them

They'll just think that I decided not to meet them

If anyone finds this, please give it to them

After telling them how much I love them, there is only one more thing to say

Can I eat them, I wonder? Even if I could, it wouldn't be enough to keep me alive.

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

I will never be able to cut through them with only a small knife.

Friends suddenly appear in the canyon like silent ghosts and wave me towards them

The thought of seeing them again is keeping me alive

I promise myself that if I can escape from here back to the people, I will be kinder towards them.

When I have finished I read them by the light of my headlamp: ARON OCT 75 - APR 03.

'I'll radio one of my men and ask them to check.'

I tell them to give most of my things to Sonja

Then I tell them what to do with my dead body

I tie my rope to them and rappel down

While I was taking them, I couldn't do anything well

If I wanted to see them again, I had to survive

When the captain of the American ship the Abraham Lincoln decided to leave and look for the monster, he asked me to go with them as an expert.

I spoke to them in French, German and English

I told them our story, but they did not seem to understand

Behind them, there were large glass windows looking out onto the sea

Some of them came in their own boats

Soon, all of them swam away.

The pearls inside them can cost hundreds of dollars

We only had small knives to fight them with

When Conseil and Ned woke up, I told them that we were in the Mediterranean Sea.

We fought them with our axes, but the large one, the one with Captain Nemo's man in his tentacle, stood holding the man in the air

Now it's my turn to kill them."

If anyone stops you, kill them." Ned Land put a fishing knife in my hand and left the room, I looked around one more time

Some of the cupboards were open, and there were books in them

There were four doors in the room, but Alice couldn't open them

I'll have to send them to you!'

'Perhaps I'm one of them,' she thought

'I never speak about cats! Our family hates cats! I don't want to hear any more about them.'

It kills all them - Oh! I'm sorry!'

Some of them cried

But the chocolates were too big for the small birds, and they had to eat them very slowly

Some of them hit the Duchess and the baby

'Be careful, Five!' one of them said.

Alice went to them

'Well, Miss, the Queen wanted trees with red flowers on them

So we're making the flowers red before she sees them.'

There were ten of them, and they had red diamonds on their clothes

After them there were a lot more people

Most of them were Kings and Queens

Alice put them behind some trees.

The Kings men looked for the gardeners but couldn't find them

Everybody started walking again and Alice walked with them.

He took them all away.

'We have to call people into the room, and ask them questions.'

The March Hare and the Mouse were quite near him and he looked at them for ideas

Alice put them all back in their places

The cards - all fifty-two of them - came down on top of Alice

She felt afraid and angry and started to fight them

I can think things OK, but when I have to say them or write them down, sometimes they come out all wrong

But then some boys hit me, and my Mom didn't want me to play with them again

'I see other people playing, but I don't play and they never ask me to play with them.'

Mom was there, and they got all the things out of my desk and put them in a brown paper bag

When they caught me, it needed eight of them to pull me down! Coach Fellers was really happy! He started jumping up and down and laughing

But suddenly I found that I was playing my harmonica with them!

'But I said to them.

It was some of our men on the far side of the hole, and there was blood all over them

And who do you think one of them was? It was Bubba!

Suddenly, somebody started shooting at them! We couldn't see the enemy soldiers because the jungle was too thick, but somebody was shooting at our men.

Two of them were dead, and Doyle was only just alive.

It started to rain one day, and it didn't stop for two months! But we still had to look for enemy soldiers - and one day we found them

Nobody could get any help to us, and the enemy soldiers were so near that we could hear them talking

I bought some shrimps, and one of the cooks at the hospital cooked them for me

'Where do you get them?' I asked him.

There were about two thousand people waiting for us at San Francisco airport when we got off the plane! What a surprise! A lot of them had beards and long hair

He tried to clean it off and not look angry, but I didn't want to wait for them to start throwing things at me! No sir! I started running.

The people ran after me - all two thousand of them! - but they couldn't catch me

Students began to come in, most of them wearing dirty jeans

That afternoon, Jenny took me to meet the other people in the group, and that night I began playing my harmonica with them at the Hodaddy Club

It went well, and I played with them every night after that.

And the police were taking some of them away.

Some American soldiers planned to take off their Vietnam medals and throw them away in front of the crowds of people.

None of them won because I was too strong, but plenty of people wanted to try their luck.

Jenny wasn't happy about the wrestling but I won a lot of money - sometimes by winning fights, sometimes by losing them because Mike told me to lose them

Well, I went into the hotel to watch them, but it was a special chess tournament and it cost five dollars to watch, so I didn't go into the chess room.

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them

And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them

All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them

From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities

If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority

It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.

We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them

They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish

But I do venture to suggest that it will be highly unconstitutional in the midst of this unconstitutional Government, - in the midst of a nation which has built up its magnificent constitution, - for the people of India to become weak and to crawl on their belly - it will be highly unconstitutional for the people of India to pocket every insult that is offered to them; it is highly unconstitutional for the 70 millions of Mohammedans of India to submit to a violent wrong done to their religion; it is highly unconstitutional for the whole of India to sit still and cooperate with an unjust Government which has trodden under its feet the honour of the Punjab.

And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.

Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.

We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view

But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom - and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.

Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas

Finally, to those nations who would make them-selves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

We dare not tempt them with weakness

I liked to study the faces of new customers before I spoke to them.

One of them, a girl of twenty-three, died recently

It was there that one of them had died

I want to know whether he has sent them back to the company

'My niece is very curious,' Mr Slinkton told me when I rejoined them

Many of them were poor and homeless

The police had no other clues to help them find the killer

Most of them went home at midnight

Some of them began singing Russian songs and dancing.

He found her safe with some club members and told them about the woman

Then one of them went off to bring a doctor

The place was badly-lit, but one man, Joseph Lawende, gave a description of them

One of them walked through Goulston Street just before 2.15, but saw nothing suspicious and returned to Mitre Square

Mrs Cox followed them into the court and said, 'Goodnight, Mary Jane' as they were going into Mary's room

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

There were lots of suspects at the time, but the police did not have any real evidence against them

The Ripper did not stay with his victims for hours before killing them.

He mutilated only the faces of Eddowes and Kelly, which, in the opinion of modern experts, indicates that he knew them.

To them he was a lunatic

There were stories of a mysterious man known as 'Leather Apron', who demanded money from prostitutes and beat them if they resisted

Many of them paid to look at the murder scenes from windows

Some hoaxers pretended to be the Ripper and followed women to scare them

Inspector Abbeline and his colleagues had to read all of them

Three of them were policemen; the fourth was Jean Valjean.

Did you forget to take them?'

He fetched them from a shelf and gave them to Valjean.

Valjean produced two five-franc pieces and gave them to the priest

Their mother - a big, red-haired woman with a plain face - sat on the doorstep of the inn, watching them.

'Look at them

'You will have them,' said Fantine, assuming that she was talking to Mme Thenardiers husband

One month later, Thenardier was short of money again, so he took Cosette's beautiful silk clothes to Paris and sold them for sixty francs

The Thenardiers did not feel guilty about treating Cosette badly because Fantine had stopped sending them regular payments.

She approached them without thinking, and discovered that they had gathered around a travelling dentist

Madeleine sent the Thenardiers 300 francs and told them to send Cosette to Montreuil immediately

I wrote to the police headquarters in Paris and told them about you.'

'Told them what about me?'

Cosette, who had returned to her place under the table, looked up from her knitting and watched them sadly

He could see their faces clearly in the moonlight, and one of them belonged to Inspector Javert.

But, although he was very interested in them, they seemed not to notice him at all

Leblanc took his daughter to a different bench, to see if Marius would follow them

One evening, having followed them to the house and watched them enter, he went in after them and spoke to the concierge

He searched everywhere for them, but without success

'If only I hadn't followed them home,' he told himself

He stood for a moment staring after them as they disappeared round a corner

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

However, there was something strange about them: although they all seemed to be written by different people, they were written on the same rough paper in the same handwriting

He also noticed that each of them had similar spelling mistakes

Thinking no more about it, he wrapped the letters up again, threw them into a corner and went to bed.

The Jondrette family had been Marius's neighbours for many months, but he had never before paid much attention to them

He had heard them and seen them, but had paid them no attention, and he suddenly felt guilty.

As Marius was thinking about the sad life of the family in the next room, he stared dreamily at the wall that separated them

'Then I'll be in a better position to help them.'

'Our daughters barefoot and without a dress between them, while she wears leather boots and a fur coat? You must be wrong

Leblanc and 'Ursula' from the trap that Jondrette was setting for them

'When the old man and the girl arrive, let them start their business

'Yes, with two good horses,' one of them replied.

'He must have been the cleverest of them all, 'Javert murmured angrily to himself.

Afterwards, they sat together on the garden bench in a state of shock, neither of them speaking

Putting them in his jacket pocket, he went out and continued to wander aimlessly around the streets, noticing only occasionally the strange atmosphere of excitement that was growing in the town

There were several street children, excited by the sound of battle, who also joined them

New people arrived all the time, bringing with them gunpowder and weapons to fight the soldiers who would be arriving very soon.

When they found a letter in his pocket which proved that he had been sent to spy on them, they tied him to a post inside the inn,

By the light of a lamp on the pavement, he could see a torn jacket, trousers with holes in them, and two bare feet

They had left quickly, at nightfall, bringing their servant, Toussaint, with them, but very little luggage

Valjean moved closer to the mirror and read the lines again, not wanting to believe them

After a long discussion with his friends, Enjolras decided that the married men (there were five of them) had to leave.

'It's your duty not to die,' he told them

Only Marius, looking over his shoulder, saw them cross the stronghold towards the smaller barricade

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

A terrible heap of dead bodies lay not far away, among them the blood-stained body of a young girl in man's clothes - Eponine.

They stood with their backs to the door, shooting up at the soldiers who were climbing down towards them from the barricade

Gillenormand showed them up to the room where Marius was waiting

Neither of them spoke for several minutes

She pressed his hands in hers and held them to her lips.

I don't know whether the person who gave them to me is pleased as he looks down on me from above

"Out here! Now!" I shout at them.

The two women move, but slowly; one of them looks down at the counter, where I know there is a secret alarm

We take our uniforms off and put them in the bag.

No, Emily, of course you're more important than them, but

She smiles that stupid, cow-like smile at them, and Oliver sees the idiot attendant smile back

"Oh thank you!" Sylvia says, and the attendant helps them into the small rowing boat and passes Oliver the picnic bag

There are a lot of them up in the creek

Maybe it is the brothers, he thinks, and he remembers the way one of them looked at the bag

You have to look like them," he says.

You can get near to them

A woman's bag is the best: they have more things in them

But their bags are on their shoulders, and there are too many of them, he knows

Nick calls them weekend bags; he says they are the best

Inside them there are wallets, phones, tablets, everything.

Sure, there are one or two bigger than her, but none of them has her romance or her luxury," Mrs Carolina Heath says as they enter the dining room.

She is a quiet young thing, and beautiful too, and Carolina likes to have beautiful things around her, so she is more than happy to talk for both of them.

"And these, Eleanor, well, how to describe them..

"Well, for them, not for me: I'm not married," says Edward a little too quickly.

Something which makes them stop and look at each other.

But only sometimes, because the defendant and the rest of her family, the Lee family, are wild, and he does not want to make her, or them, angry

They have a terrible reputation in Bristol, and there is not one of them that does not scare Nick.

He takes the back stairs, passes three or four lawyers in their black gowns and white wigs and feels sorry for them: it is so hot today

Nick walks to the bins and looks around them; on the other side is the sister of the defendant

"Fine, go and tell them what you heard

So you can tell them what you want, but they can do nothing, and you are still here in Bristol, and so is my family

The Lee family is back in the room now, and he looks at them

Small houses, with neither rich nor poor people inside them

But not one of them is interested in him

As he does not want them to see his face, he pulls open the left door to the box and enters.

I told them I had a pain in my side, and the doctors thought it was my appendix

The cop nods but does not take them

We tell them to tell the parents they can have the kid when they leave us the money

Every year" Greg said, "hundreds of tourists come here, right? Most of them are rich, and some of them are very rich

"Look at them

And listen, I don't hate them for that

I just know that if we ask them for a small amount, then they can pay

We tell them they only have six hours

We tell them to leave the money where we say or..."

That's enough time for them to get the money from Banff but not enough to do anything else like phone the cops

No one saw them, but they covered Greg's plates to be sure, and they wore masks

Six hours to leave them the money in a safe place

He wants to sit down to look at them and moves closer to the edge.

Around the old but impressive school, there are green gardens and grounds that continue for miles, and at the windows of the building there are the thirty faces of serious young men, who watch them strangely.

The secretary outside the headmaster's room tells them they can enter, but Smith stops

The headmaster tells them to sit in the same voice he uses for his students.

"Yes." Bowen stands by the large windows and does not look at them

"And what about the students?" Smith asks them both.

"Show them out Miss White." And the headmaster does not look at them again.

They say he punishes them for every mistake."

"My God! Just look at that, Junior," Owen says with a smile, and he points to the valley and green forest below them

No, this time the sun is high and hot, and this time Owen has his old guns over his shoulder, and he remembers the way that Junior's expressionless face changed when he saw them the night before.

He puts the guns next to a tree and takes them out of the bags carefully, and, yes, there is the interest in the boy's eyes.

"What about deer? Can we shoot them?"

He could cut and shuffle the deck like he had eight arms instead of two, and he could remember every card he saw in a split second and could use his fingers and little tricks to put the cards where he wanted them in the deck.

"Scare you? You think we want to scare you? Clive, let them out," he says.

But for a moment Clive and Kenny wait, stepping backwards so that the waves caused by the feeding frenzy do not get at them.

"No, the sick thing is the way he kills them

He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed."

"Yeah, but the weird thing is none of them tried to fight," says the tall kid.

They just, I don't know, let this guy stab them again and again."

The doors open, and she quickly walks through them.

She can see the stairs to the street, and she wants to walk to them, but she feels so weak

...He uses something strange: not a knife but something long and thin, and he stabs them again and again, and they just bleed and bleed.

It also notes where they are at all times, to keep them safe.

Everyone was given one hundred energy units a week, and they had to be careful not to use them too quickly

With five of them sharing, an hour cost just one energy unit each, so they did this often

They connect your body to them and look after it for you - your food, your muscles, everything

As they traveled, towering blocks of apartments rose up high all around them

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

So we used to play tricks with them: put them in people's clothes

Sala knew that Apat loved it when Cham came with them to the center, because Cham always joked around with him

The three of them laughed and talked as they waited for the doors to open

"Can't you just get rid of them?"

"But I've read a lot of them and..

Some of them were really beautiful, but you couldn't really explore them because you were still in a little room with a time limit

You actually experience them."

The door recognized that they had tickets, and let them in

A friendly young woman called Zee guided them to their pod area.

"These are your body suits," Zee told them

"You can change over there." She handed them each a slippery, silvery suit and pointed them in the right direction.

Sala and Cham each went into a little room and Sala put on her suit, made a neat pile of her clothes, and carried them out to Zee

She led them toward a row of strange-looking pods that stood vertically

"I think they want us to follow them!"

Sala and Cham swam with them for a while - further out into the ocean first and then back toward the beach

Zee brought them a high-energy drink

And take your time," she told them

"And then the dolphins were making all that noise, and we laughed about them talking to us -"

"I thought so." He played with her fingers, matching them against his

All the reasons she'd given to Cham ran through her mind, but how could she explain them to Niki? It was really complicated.

They find problems even before they've happened, and fix them."

She'd bumped straight into the man, who'd dropped a bagful of dried food packets, spreading them everywhere.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" gasped Sala, and she bent down at once to help him pick them up.

"Mom, why can't they just use people instead of replacing them with robots and nanobots all the time?" Suddenly, Sala felt more angry than upset

We think we can trust them, but we know that this letter could put you in danger

I'm sure Cham's parents are good people, but we don't know them well enough."

Cham's parents Dani and Tian were waiting for them just inside

A Pod Life technician greeted them enthusiastically

Leti led them past the pods where they'd been swimming with dolphins, and then through some thick glass doors

Each time, Leti typed in a complicated code to let them in, as well as waiting by the recognition screen

Through an enormous glass wall, Leti showed them the energy storage area

He finished, and turned to Cham's parents, handing them a screen

Or she would suddenly tell them all one of her memories: of growing up with Eston or their suffering during the Oil Wars.

Here, the tower blocks seemed taller and more depressing than ever, built closely together so that the spaces between them were always in shadow

Because it made them scratch."

"Another secret! You're full of them these days

When they had talked about it before, she had felt left out; not jealous, exactly, because she was sure that she didn't want to join them

We want to have them beside our beds, so we can think of you every night." Cham looked over at Sala apologetically

You'd have to imagine them." Sala giggled

Sometimes she took Apat with her, though he was less enthusiastic now that Cham couldn't go with them

She'd been really excited to discover what the group was doing, but she hadn't considered actually joining them

"I can try to contact them again, if you like."

She was at the kitchen table with Mom and Gran, but Apat was in his room, and she didn't want him to hear them.

If I find some, I can test them to see if they belong to someone in our family."

It was good to know that they could do something to test Eston's letter; but even so, it wouldn't tell them where Wena and Oban's group had gone

"I have to talk to them

None of them seemed at all alarmed or worried about Cham.

She couldn't tell them about Gran's letter, or the meetings with Wena

Sala stared at them

The line moved forward slowly; then a technician called Odem led them through the thick glass doors, past the test laboratory, and into a waiting room

She wasn't even sure if his family would give them time alone together - but she'd have to make sure it happened

He laughed and smiled and seemed happy to see them all; but to Sala, he was different

Cham told them all about skiing, snowboarding, riding a horse.

So the real Cham was still there, underneath! Maybe he'd just needed a little time to get used to them all again...

"So if he tells them about that, they will investigate

If the government came asking them questions, it would be better, for now, that he knew nothing at all.

They'll make us tell them everything we know." It was a horrible thought

"If we can find them again, that is

It was clear to them now: the pods were just another way of controlling everyone

"Could you teach them to me?" she asked.

Zee took them to the same room as before

Sala watched them, searching their faces for clues

Some of them looked a little stiff and strange, maybe; but most of them seemed perfectly normal

For one last time, she thought of them

Instead, she imagined them standing in a beautiful garden, surrounded by greenery, with wild roses nodding gently nearby

If they can't surprise you, it's harder for them to control you.

We'll heat them, she told herself

She always found an excuse to speak to them

Then, pretending to know them well, she asked her victims rude questions in her loud American voice.

My job was to talk to them, light their cigarettes and tidy the room after they had gone.

The sandwiches were dry, but I ate them without thinking

I want to forget them

On the left, were two high iron gates and beside them a small lodge

Maxim drove up to the wide stone steps and stopped the car in front of them

I dropped my gloves on the floor and Mrs Danvers picked them up with a twisted little smile on her lips

I could not meet them by myself.

'Did you go into any of the rooms? If you wish to see them, please tell me

I could show them to you now.'

'If you want to see the rooms in the west wing, I can show them to you at any time.'

'Didn't you hear their car? Frith took them to the morning-room

I haven't seen the gardens, but I'm sure I shall never get tired of them

The windows had pieces of wood over them

Frith must not see them

I stood them in a row on top of the desk and looked at them

Try to get them mended in London.'

I picked up the slippers and held them in my hand.

'I come into these room and dust them every day,' Mrs Danvers said

I made sketches of some of the costumes, but I did not like any of them

'Many of them would make beautiful costumes

Hundreds of them were brought in from the garden and Mrs Danvers knew exactly how to arrange them

Maxim and Frank asked me about my costume but I told them nothing

'You won't know it's me,' I told them

I never wanted to see them again

I walked slowly down the stairs to meet them.

I shook hands with them all

I went after them

Maxim walked with them to the car

The story was in all of them

The boat sank too far away from them

'There were three of them, in different parts of the boat

I don't trust them, Frank

It only takes him a minute or two to find them.

Moving quickly, he puts them into his bag and leaves

Natalie Nevons is watching them.

'Look at them!' says one policeman

'Let's stop them.'

'It's OK, we can tell them everything later

The Cat looks back and sees them

'I can't see them

And the three of them begin to climb up to the roof of the building.

She spread a thin skin of peanut butter on them, poured a glass of nonfat milk, and sat at the table.

At the time, Tina was certain that Danny was aware of the nightly arguments she and Michael were having in their own bedroom, which was next to his, and that he wanted to move into the den so he wouldn't be able to hear them bickering

She stooped, retrieved the pieces of the Electronic Battleship game, and returned them to the table.

Belatedly, as she pressed her fingertips to the words on the chalkboard, the possible meaning of them struck her

Danny must have left them before he died

Although she repeatedly erased them, they stubbornly returned

Carol had been shiny-eyed and breathless because the high rollers had tipped her with green chips, as if they'd been winning instead of losing; for bringing them half a dozen drinks, she had collected twelve hundred dollars.

"And handles them very well," Helen said

This afternoon, however, she'd been playing a pair of lucky slot machines at the Mirage Hotel, and she hadn't wanted to walk away from them while they were paying off so generously

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them

They cheered one another on those rare occasions when one of them hit a really large jackpot; and when one of them died, the others went to the funeral en masse

In a country that worshiped youth, most elderly Americans devoutly desired to discover a place where they belonged, but unlike the duchesses, many of them never found it.

For five years, ever since her sixty-fifth birthday, they had been pressuring her to live with them

She loved them as much as life itself, and she knew they truly wanted her with them; they were not inviting her out of a misguided sense of guilt and obligation

If she phoned for them and then ran out of the house, they might not find an intruder when they came

All four of the remaining photos were swinging back and forth on the picture hooks that held them

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

She put them back where they belonged, then slid the sofa into place.

She blinked rapidly, closed her eyes, opened them again, but still the doorknob appeared to be sheathed in a thin, irregular jacket of ice.

The legs at the foot rose three or four inches before crashing back into the casters, that had been put under them to protect the carpet

The springs began to sing as if metal fingers were strumming them.

The cast of Magyck! Took several bows, then the crew, then the orchestra, all of them flushed with the excitement of being part of an unqualified hit

Although no second show was scheduled this evening, as would be the case every night henceforth, busboys and waitresses were busily clearing tables, resetting them with fresh linen and silverware for the following night's eight o'clock performance.

On the left, slot machines ran the entire length of the casino, bank after nerve-jangling bank of them, brightly and colorfully lighted, attended by gamblers who were more vocal than the card players but not as loud as the craps shooters

To reach the escalators that would carry them down to the shopping arcade on the lower level, they had to cross the entire casino

When someone shows them a calendar and a daily newspaper, they're really shocked

"I haven't called them."

She had been determined that neither of them would have reason to feel that his importance in her life had diminished

"During the year, I'm going to send special invitations to the married ones, asking them to spend their anniversaries here, with everything comped for three days

We'll serve them champagne at the show

These were customers to whom the hotel was especially anxious to cater, and the more the Pyramid knew about them, the better it could serve them

Although the hotel collected this data with, for the most part, the customers' happiness in mind, Tina wondered how pleased these people would be to learn that the Golden Pyramid maintained fat dossiers on them.

She wiped them on her slacks and then quickly tapped out her request

A hot welling of tears blurred her vision, and she struggled to repress them

She jerked on them and pulled both plugs.

She couldn't pour for them because her hands were shaking too badly.

"I believed them, thought it was safe."

All of them were top-notch scouts - and all of them died along with Jaborski and Tom Lincoln.

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

"They had the best wilderness clothing and the best down-lined sleeping bags, the best winter tents, plenty of charcoal and other heat sources, plenty of food, and two wilderness experts to guide them

They turned out the lights and left the room, closing the door after them.

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

They both realized that they were in need of each other, physically and mentally and emotionally, and that whatever happened between them would be good.

She felt as if the two of them had been here, like this, locked in an embrace, many times before.

She slid a hand between them, squeezed and stroked him.

For a long, long time, they forgot that death existed, and they explored the delicious, silken surfaces of love, and it seemed to them, in those shining hours, that they would both live forever.

They fell easily into the pace and rhythm that had earlier best pleased them

Besides, the two of them went back a long way indeed

"You've got the wrong guy," Elliot assured them.

Elliot took a step toward them.

"But I'm not taking them."

Determined not to let them see that he was frightened, aware that any sign of fear would be taken as proof of weakness, Elliot said, "Well, you've got one hell of a weird approach for someone who's just taking a public opinion survey."

He wanted them to think that guns didn't scare him

Evidently sensing Vince's onrushing blowup and aware that it wouldn't help them accomplish their mission, Bob quickly said, "Listen, Stryker, we can't answer most of your questions because we don't know

We haven't been told the details, not even half of them

"Hell, you won't be able to tell them who we were or where they can start looking for us

And if they do pick up our trail somehow, we can put pressure on them to drop it fast

After all, it makes them."

She tried to lift one of them, but it was too heavy

He folded the pages and stuffed them into his hip pocket.

The last panel of the illustrated story showed the parents and the boy walking out of the graveyard while Death watched them leave

He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a black van pull away from the curb, half a block behind them.

"Are you going to try to lose them?"

Behind them, the van dwindled rapidly, until it was a block and a half away

But now that they know we're on to them, they might panic, might do anything

He wheeled around another corner, and then another, trying to disappear from the men in the van long enough to leave them with so many choices of streets to follow that they would have to give up the chase in confusion

"And run right into them."

"There's probably more than one of them, and they'll be armed."

The door rumbled down, concealing them from anyone who might drive past.

An imposing, barrel-chested man in rumpled chinos and a white T-shirt snapped on the garage light and peered curiously at them

He had meaty arms; the circumference of one of them almost equaled the circumference of Elliot's thigh

about the boat," Elliot said, not even knowing where he was going to go with that line, ready to say anything to keep Tom from putting up the garage door and throwing them out.

No matter who was searching for them, no matter how large the organization pitted against them, this city was too big to harbor danger for them in every nook and crevice

"The only way these people are going to get us," he said, "is if we just give ourselves over to them

We can hide from them for a long time if we have to

"The cops might be a part of it, at least to the extent that Vince's bosses can put pressure on them

For some of them, it's the only loyalty they'll ever be capable of

If you want to purchase a false passport, a counterfeit driver's license, or anything of that nature, you can pick and choose from several of the best document-forgery artists in the world, because this is where a lot of them live

If you're looking for a freelance hit man, someone who deals in carload lots of illegal weapons, maybe a mercenary who can put together a small expeditionary force for an overseas operation - you can find all of them here

"Just two ordinary people against them?"

No one was following them, but he kept checking.

As he and Tina walked across the parking lot toward the diner, Elliot couldn't shake the feeling that someone or something was watching them

He preferred to deal with hard facts, realities; that was why he was such a good attorney, so adept at taking threads of evidence and weaving a good case out of them.

Elliot fished the pages out of his hip pocket, unfolded them, and put them on the table

Neddler told me all about them."

"Evidently they think someone from Project Pandora has decided to rat on them."

If that many voices were raised, then Vince's bosses couldn't risk silencing all of them, and we'd be safe

But if the other people had a chance to view the bodies, if none of them has had any reason to entertain doubts like yours, then they're all just finally learning to cope with the tragedy

If we go to them now with a wild story about a mysterious conspiracy, they aren't going to be anxious to listen."

Maybe we've already got enough to convince them it's big news

"Maybe a glimpse was enough to condemn them."

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

"Well, isn't there any way that we could slip past them and get at Kennebeck?"

And they thought about those things that neither of them wanted to speak of: murder past and murder present.

Tina wanted to walk through the diner and grab each of the customers by the throat, shake and threaten each of them, until she discovered who had rigged the jukebox

It was ludicrous to suspect any of them of being employed by the secret organization that had blown up her house

Tina wasn't able to cover her ears; her arms hung straight down at her sides, frozen, rigid, hands fisted, and she couldn't find the will or the strength to lift them

they think someone involved with Project Pandora has turned on them and told me what really happened to Danny

It wasn't one of them

He's able to move objects just by thinking about them

For a minute or two neither of them spoke

And this is one of them."

Willis Bruckster stared at them, then crumpled his game card with obvious disappointment and disgust, as if he had lost a few hard-earned dollars.

His ships, sealed in their glass worlds, relaxed him; he liked to spend time with them when he had a problem to work out or when he was on edge, for they made him feel serene, and that security allowed his mind to function at peak performance.

His eyes were green, clear, alert, and - if one took the time to study them - menacing

Part of this antagonism between them rose because they had been born into utterly different worlds and were equally proud of their origins - as well as disdainful of all others

Many of them had been Presidential appointees, occupying high-level posts in the federal government; a few had served on the President's cabinet, in half a dozen administrations, though none had ever deigned to run for an elective position

Pacing, Kennebeck said, "Now that we've tried to kill them, they know the story of the Sierra accident was entirely contrived

They figure there's something wrong with the little boy's body, something odd that we can't afford to let them see

"I don't even think we should put a tail on them as soon as they get there," Alexander said

He couldn't see anyone in any of them

As far as he could tell, no one followed them.

And the Russians giving them a hand to earn some foreign currency

If there's any government on earth capable of using a weapon like this, it's them - or the North Koreans or the Iraqis

While we're working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren't we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren't we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?"

He turned his head toward them and stared at them through the railed sides of the hospital bed in which he lay.

"There's pain in them now," Dombey said sadly

The rear windows were blank, black; a sentry might be standing behind any of them, invisible in the darkness.

There wasn't much of a chance that a trap had been set for them so soon

If anyone did glance out a back window, he would spot the two of them instantly.

With his left hand, he fumbled for the two safety catches, released them

They had taken only two steps from the window when Elliot saw the snow move no more than twenty feet from them

The stranger had been lying in the snow, watching them, waiting; now he had a wet hole in his chest

Twin plumes of crystallized breath trailed behind them, like ghosts.

Elliot recognized them for what they were

Tina raised her head, glanced at the empty street behind them, then looked at Elliot

"If we abandon the car with them so close, they'll run us down fast

"I'll fade back into the shrubbery and wait for them to come around the corner after us

Give them a chance to see you when they turn into the street

I don't even want them to know what direction we went."

"We're still one step ahead of them," Elliot said shakily.

A short time later, in bed, they held each other close, but neither of them had sex in mind

"I don't think you do need or want them," Tina said

"Listen, if I could get my hands on the people who're trying to keep us from finding Danny, I wouldn't have any compunctions about killing them

Maybe killing them is the most natural, admirable thing I could do."

It was Jacklin's job to conceive new welfare programs, convince the Secretary of Health and Welfare that those programs were needed, sell them to the Congress, and then establish convincing bureaucratic shells to conceal the fact that the programs were utterly phony; and as federal funds flowed to these false-front operations, the money was diverted to the Network

Most of them had served their country openly, in a supremely visible fashion, where everyone could see and admire their selfless public-spiritedness

More shocking still to the sensibilities of patrician Easterners like them: on three occasions, in South America, Alexander had been in a position where it had been necessary for him to pull the assassin's trigger himself

He had enjoyed those murders so immensely, had been so profoundly thrilled by them, that he had, by choice, performed the executioner's role on half a dozen other assignments

His targets had always been spies, traitors; more than a few of them had been cold-blooded killers themselves

Yes, he was sure that his father and uncles would give him their blessings - if only he were permitted to tell them.

"Don't they publish terrain maps of the wilderness areas? Backpackers and other nature lovers would need them

I saw them at the parent-son scout meeting when he explained why the trip would be perfectly safe."

"I want them found before another day passes," Alexander said

Both of them

The first sporting-goods dealer did not carry the maps, and although the second usually had them, it was currently sold out

"But what if they're watching my accounts down there? That would lead them to us fast

If they thought you knew about them-"

If they were killed, the truth would die with them, and the cover-up would continue

He preferred them to be soft and easy.

Tina was in awe of - and disquieted by - the stately forest that crowded them as they drove north on the narrowing county road

Even if she had not known that these deep woodlands harbored secrets about Danny and the deaths of the other scouts, she would have found them mysterious and unnervingly primeval.

Perhaps the lateness of the hour and the fading light would work against them, but approaching in the night might actually be to their advantage

They passed a few signs that told them the lane they were using was kept open for the exclusive benefit of federal and state wildlife officers and researchers

Snow began to fall more heavily - yet ahead of them, not a single flake lay in their way

Bizarrely, the unplowed trail had led them to a paved road; steam rose from it, and sections of the pavement were even dry.

Stopping the Explorer, he picked up the pistol from the seat between them, and he flicked off both safeties

They were no more than six or eight feet from the lighted shack, close enough to see the guard's face as he scowled at them through the large window.

When he discovered the nature of the maps, when he realized that one of them was missing, and when he discovered that the missing map was the one Stryker would need in order to find the Project Pandora labs, Alexander felt his face flush with anger and chagrin

"Someone, some damn turncoat on Project Pandora, must have revealed enough about its location for them to find it with just a little help

Alexander suddenly realized what their edge was, what kept them going, and he sat up straight in his chair

That same traitorous bastard is also up there in the labs right this minute, ready to open the gates and doors to them

Most of them probably live in the installation for weeks or months at a time

No one yet had come out of the building to challenge them, which most likely meant that Danny had jinxed the video security system.

The fact that they had gotten this far unhurt didn't make Elliot feel any better about what lay ahead of them

We have to be ready to kill them or put them out of action some other way."

The outer door slid shut behind them - whoosh - making an airtight seal.

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

"People are going to be behind some of them."

The cab was at such an angle from them that they couldn't see who was in it.

The cab controls would not operate unless one first inserted an acceptable ID card into a slot above them

The elevator doors closed behind them, and around them, the air grew warmer again.

Half a dozen or more, judging by the sound of them

Tina knew that she and Elliot were finished if someone came out of that room and saw them

Then, even with Danny jamming the enemy's weapons, she and Elliot would be able to escape only if they slaughtered their way out, and she knew that neither of them had the stomach for that much murder, perhaps not even in self-defense.

She could not have said anything else that would have had a fraction as much impact on them as the words she'd spoken

If you tell them anything about this..

If either one of them makes a wrong move, blow him away."

Zachariah was on the floor, bound and gagged, glaring up at them with hate and rage.

As the three of them moved to the airtight steel door that led into the room beyond the window, Elliot said, "Why is he in an isolation chamber? Is he ill?"

"Not now," Dombey said, stopping at the door, turning to them, evidently disturbed by what he had to tell them

He turned away from them, spun the wheel on the steel door, and swung that barrier inward.

As his legs came out from under the covers, the hospital gown slipped off them, and Tina saw that his poor limbs were too bony and fleshless to safely support him

The chopper hugged the valley floor, streaking northward, ten feet above an ice-blocked river, still forced to make its way through a snowfall that nearly blinded them, but sheltered from the worst of the storm's turbulence by the walls of mammoth evergreens that flanked the river

Elliot said, "But if racing to keep up with the Chinese - or the Russians or the Iraqis - can create situations like the one we've got here, where an innocent child gets ground up in the machine, then aren't we just becoming monsters too? Aren't we letting our fears of the enemy turn us into them? And isn't that just another way of losing the war?"

There's no way to screen them out ahead of time

"If I understand you, the Chinese could use Wuhan-400 to wipe out a city or a country, and then there wouldn't be any need for them to conduct a tricky and expensive decontamination before they moved in and took over the conquered territory."

Security eventually found them

"And by then he was able to pass the disease on to them," Tina said as she finished bundling Danny into the blanket.

When Bollinger discovered they had a vehicle, he tried to persuade them to drive him all the way into Reno

Bollinger tried to run from them

They brought everyone here and put them in isolation

One day later all of them were dead..

I'm going to make them believe he was the one who cooperated with you

If I can make them think that Zachariah was the one who spilled the secrets to you, if I can protect my position here, maybe I'll be promoted and have more influence." He smiled

He watched them with anger and fear.

Snow lashed them.

The chopper swooped toward them.

Leaning forward to view the Explorer through the bubble window of the chopper, George Alexander said, "Put us down right in front of them, Jack."

She wondered what lay ahead for them.

After the first story meeting, however, I never saw the two of them together

No one threatened my life; neither of these women had an unkempt beard (or a kempt one for that matter); neither of them presented us with a body-odor problem; and neither of them indulged in furious political rants that sprayed spittle on those of us who just wanted to make a TV movie.

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

"Which papers? The papers in Uncle Elias's box? He burnt them!" I said.

They wanted to stop equality for black people and to kill anyone who didn't agree with them

The police couldn't stop them

'He came to me for help and those men murdered him! I'm going to find them, if it's the last thing I do!' he said to me, and he hurried out of the house.

'Watson!' he said, 'I know the names of Openshaw's enemies! And now I'm going to send them a surprise! This will frighten them!' He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope

'I've looked at hundreds of them today

When they arrive in America, they'll get the pips and then the police will catch them!'

The murderers of John Openshaw did not get the pips, but, in the end, death came to them.

I have liked telephones, and here in France we now have so many of them that you are never safe from interruption

And I suppose you ought to tell them that Andre..

She rarely answered questions and spent a lot of her time sewing, hut her favourite activity seemed to be catching flies, which she always released unharmed after examining them carefully.

He knew that the Air Ministry would have forbidden some of them as too dangerous, but he wanted to be certain about the results before reporting his discovery.

I told them a fly had escaped from the Professor's laboratory and that it must be caught alive

Twenty minutes later he carefully folded them and put them into the brown envelope

Suddenly, Rod sees them

'And explains them in the worst possible way.'

There had already been a disagreement between them.

The excitement rose, then Miss Marple said, 'Bad girl! If you make things up, people often believe them, and sometimes that leads to problems.'

Dr Stone met them and they walked together to the village

I decided to leave them and found my wife and Miss Marple in the sitting room.

You can think of them yourself, I am sure.'

I like them both.'

There was a watchful look in them

If you are alone and do not want to see people - well, the only thing to do is to let them ring.'

When I found a place where the plants beside the path looked as though someone had walked on them, I left the path and forced my way through

'That old woman who cleans for him wiped them off yesterday morning

'I suppose,' I said, 'that someone else has asked her to work for them.'

'She's staying,' I said, and told them what had upset Mary.

All these things were in the attic when I married Lucius and I've never looked at them before

She was wearing them on Thursday.'

I had thought that Lawrence had broken them

I went across and looked between them

'Colonel Protheroe probably kept them locked away somewhere.'

Mary came out of the kitchen and saw me looking at them

I took them into the study

And I looked through them as well, but there was no one in the house.'

So I asked them to call me when the line was free.

So perhaps the sneeze that Mrs Price Ridley's servant heard might have been the shot? But anyway, Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding went into the studio together - and then realized, of course, that I would not leave my garden until I saw them come out again!'

You saw them.'

We, the people who live on this Earth, must seem to them at least as different and less developed as monkeys are to us

And before we criticize them for thinking in this way, we must remember how badly we have treated not only the animals of this planet, but also other people

As the group moved forwards, a number of other people started to follow them.

As the unseen ray of light passed over them, trees caught fire and even the bushes exploded into flame

'Thanks.' And all three of them laughed.

I tried but could not tell them what I had seen

They may stay in the pit and kill people who come near them, as they cannot get out of it

'We have to try not to kill them,' he said, 'if it can possibly be avoided.'

I talked with them for a time and told them of my sight of the Martians on the previous evening

None had seen them, so they asked me many questions

After some time I left them and went on to the railway station to get as many morning papers as I could

Towards Maybury Bridge there were voices and the sound of feet, but I did not have the courage to shout or go to them

Between them were areas of fire and smoking ground

There were a few people still alive there; most of them were very frightened, and many of them had been burnt

We shouted and they stopped while we hurried towards them

Soldiers were telling people to leave and helping them to load carts in the main street

I saw one old man with a big box and a number of flower-pots, angrily arguing with a soldier who wanted him to leave them behind.

'Over there! Do you see them?'

Then I saw them, enormous grey figures

The houses fell as it touched them, and exploded into flame

Then I saw the four of them carrying the remains of the fallen one between them, now clear and then later faint through a curtain of smoke, moving away from me across a great space of river and fields

'Are these creatures everywhere? Has the Earth been given to them?'

Machine guns are completely useless against them, and field-guns have been put out of action

But none of them were written by anyone who had actually seen a Martian

My brother could get very little exact information out of them

'They come from Weybridge and Walton, and they said guns have been heard at Chertsey, heavy firing, and that soldiers told them to move out at once because the Martians are corning

They could move quickly and strike with such power that even the biggest guns could not stand against them

No doubt the Martians were very frightening, but there could not be more than twenty of them against our millions.

Some distance behind them was a man on an old-fashioned bicycle

Most of them were going to Chalk Farm station, where special trains were being loaded.

They have poisoned our gunners, destroyed Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon, and are moving slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way, It is impossible to stop them

And in the sky above them, the dawn was growing brighter - clear and calm.

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

Hidden by a wood, it seems they were not noticed by the Martian nearest to them

After this it seemed that the three Martians spoke together, and those who were watching them report that they stayed absolutely quiet for the next half-hour

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

When he saw them, the curate made a frightened noise and began running, but I knew it was no good running from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side of the road

They never gave the guns any chance against them

Wherever there was a possibility of guns being hidden, they fired a cylinder of Black Smoke at them, and where the guns could be seen they used the Heat-Ray.

After that no group of men would stand against them, because this would mean almost certain death.

You have to imagine what happened to the gunners towards Esher, waiting so tensely in the evening light, because none of them lived to tell the story

He arrived just in time to save them.

He heard their screams and, hurrying round the corner, saw a couple of men trying to pull them out of the little cart which they had been driving, while a third held onto the frightened horse's head

My brother shouted and ran towards them

The big man tripped over him, and when my brother got to his feet he found himself facing both of them

My brother learned that the two women were the wife and younger sister of a doctor living in Stanmore, The doctor had heard about the Martians at the railway station, on his way home from seeing a patient, and had sent them off, promising to follow after telling the neighbour

He said he would catch up with them by about half-past four in the morning, but it was now nearly nine and there was no sign of him.

They also noticed a long line of dust rising among the houses in front of them

There were people of every class and profession, but they were all dusty; their skins were dry, their lips black and cracked, and all of them looked very afraid.

On Tuesday the three of them, still intending to get out to sea, drove through the busy country towards Colchester.

Although the three of them were hungry themselves, they decided to walk on.

There was food available, although the prices were very high, and the three of them had a meal.

He looked past it at the Martians again and saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their legs were almost completely under water.

The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply sailed at full speed towards them

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

But I do not know who these people were or what happened to them

We saw nothing of them the next day

As we passed other small towns, we found them unaffected by either Heat-Ray or Black Smoke, and there were some people alive, although none could give us news

Once again, on the Surrey side, there was black dust that had once been smoke, and some dead bodies - a number of them near the approach to the station.

Four or five little black figures hurried in front of it, and in a moment it became obvious that this Martian was hunting them

In three steps it was among them, and they ran away in all directions

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

With these it was taking pieces of metal out of the cylinder and laying them on the earth behind it

Now I was more used to them, and was in a good position with a lot of time to study them properly

It may be that on Mars they moved around on them quite easily.

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

The hole was only big enough for one of us to look through, so I had to stop watching them for a time while he had his chance.

Before I went to bed I was very restless and went from window to window, looking out for some sign of them

'Well, people who intend to escape them must get ready

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no great ideas

They just used to rush off to work - I've seen hundreds of them, with a bit of breakfast in their hand, running to catch their train, frightened they'd be sacked if they didn't

Well, the Martians will be a good thing for them

'The Martians will probably make pets of some of them; train them to do tricks - who knows? And some, maybe, they will train to hunt us.'

Under London there are hundreds of kilometres of them

It would be wrong of them to live and weaken the others.

Think of four or five of them with men inside, firing Heat-Rays back at the Martians!'

They had been dead for many days, so I hurried quickly past them

The black powder covered them and softened their shapes

I did not take the trouble to touch them

At any time the destruction that had already happened to the north-western borders of the city, that had destroyed Ealing, might strike among these houses and leave them smoking ruins

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

These germs of disease have killed people and animals since the beginning of time, but over these many years we have developed the ability to fight against them

But there are no germs on Mars, and as soon as the Martians arrived, as soon as they drank and fed, our tiny friends began to destroy them

Across the pit, on its further edge, lay the great flying-machine which they had been testing in our heavier atmosphere when disease and death stopped them

One of them had died as it had been crying to its friends

I stayed with them for four days after my recovery

My hosts tried to change my mind but at last, promising faithfully to return to them, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty.

But then I noticed how ill the people looked and how many of them still wore old and dirty clothes

I followed them to my study and found, lying on my writing- table, the page of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder

There were the remains of the meat and the bread, now gone bad, where the soldier and I had left them

The future may belong to them and not to us.

I am sure that our maid had warned them that I was arriving, and they all went away

They write to her and tell her to send them a hundred pounds, or they will tell her new husband everything

When he killed twelve chickens, and I paid for them, I changed my opinion of Montmorency

He then takes them around town to fight other dogs

I had forgotten them!

Harris and George decided to pack them

They walked on things and broke them

Then they put heavy things on top of them

He pretended that the lemons were rats, and killed three of them! This was Montmorency's idea of fun.

So we went to get them out of the suitcase

Some of them were worried and afraid

A young keeper 4 heard them and came to help

They were pulling a rope behind them, and they were talking

Two of them hold the rope

Then one of them decides to stop, because she needs her hat

I Now one of them needs a comb for her hair

You put them into special holes in the side of the boat

We jumped on them, kicked them and pushed them

I went to help them

Once people try my scrambled eggs, they always want them.'

We found only six of them.

Then he sat down by the stove and mixed them with a fork.

We thought they were some sort of Red Indian food, and, to cook them correctly, it was necessary to do special dances with magic words.

There were fish all over them

'Well, just put the potatoes in without peeling them

We'll put them in the stew

We had tried to wash them in the river, as George told us

She looked at them and said, 'This will cost you three times the usual price.'

You can see many fish swim past, but you can't catch them.

You cannot catch them, however.

'Which of them could I marry?' said Mercy

'Oh, I forgot to tell you about them

In fact, I was going to show them to you

I think it was on Tuesday I bought them

And later I forgot all about them.'

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'

Running around with an old and evil politician would horrify them.

In fact, I am wearing them now

My sister noticed them

'Did she ask you where you got them from?'

He never does anything about them

One of those things which, with luck, will keep them together for some time to come.

'I know my drawings aren't good, and I'm afraid to show them to you.'

They learn to love them (if they don't learn to hate them!) after they're married

But it can't be the same man! I must be going mad! Ever since I saw the similarity between Miss Fairlie and the woman in white, I've connected them in my mind

When they return - with Sir Percival's friend Count Fosco and his wife (Laura's aunt Eleanor) - will go to live with them in Hampshire

He has intelligent grey eyes; when I look into them, I feel things that I do not want to feel

As I was walking to my room, I heard them talking.

Mr Gilmore always asked me to read documents before I signed them.'

I'm sure she told them

There are hundreds of pages here, and I have read them all with pleasure

When the Count and Countess arrived from the countryside, they brought a guest with them: the Countess's niece, Lady Glyde

I got in a cab and escaped from them.

'We must bring them to justice! We must give Laura back her true identity! Mr Kyrle says we can't prove that she is Lady Glyde, so we must force one of them to confess it

He was so concerned about the registers that he kept copies of them locked up at his home, in case anything happened to the originals

I did not tell them what I knew

He said he'd come for two reasons: first, to express his feelings for me (I refused to listen to them) and secondly, to repeat the warning in his letter

You told me long ago that you couldn't explain them to me, but this is an emergency

We wrote to the servants at Forest Road to tell them that Lady Glyde was coming to visit

After having read them all, Mr Kyrle said that Laura's identity was now proved

Why educate them for that? People worried that education was not good for women

She helped many people in prison, and she stopped them from getting hurt by the prison workers

They fight to be different from how some men want to see them, and from other women.

Women, said Simone, are always described as "The Other" - she means that women do not act like men, and, because of this, men believe that women are not as important as them.

Women from all over the world can write to the website about the things that happen to them.

Although almost none of them carried a gun, they did "men's" jobs and got the same pay

Women still do most of the work in the home, which means that many of them are working a lot more than men

Later in the 20th century, there were more women in science, and some of them did very important work

American Emily Levesque is one of them

Also, politics has always been a career for men, and when women become politicians, some people say bad things to them.

Only 208 of them were women - that is 32 percent

A pilot saw them, and he flew his aeroplane down at them

Nobody knows what happened to them.

Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk was one of them

Thirteen women pilots were asked to join it, and Wally Funk was one of them.

Was this because of sexism? Maybe the men became afraid that the women were equal, or sometimes better, than them.

When she was young, she liked many sports, and she was very good at them

Other people said she had to look after her husband and her children! But Fanny started the 1948 Games by winning two races - one of them was the 100 metres

Women have fought for the right to watch sports, to practise them and to enter tournaments.

This goal talks about empowering women, which means helping them to become stronger and braver

Parents in poor families marry girls when they are young so they do not have to give them food at home

When Don Alejandro sees them he says, "Why are you all here?"

I have principles and I fight for them

We must put them in prison and kill them! They are dangerous."

"What a good idea! My soldiers can arrest them today," says the Captain.

They take them to prison

I know them

We must be silent, enter the prison and help them

It accuses them," says the Governor.