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

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

There was more to this than Jones had told him.

Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

he could feel more than hear the staccato beat of hoofs that fanned out across the prairie to the north.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

You need her even more than you need him ''.

It was to be nothing more than that.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

`` My reputation's my stock in trade '', Tom mentioned more than once.

`` But honest-to-Betsy, I've seed more hair than that on a piece o' bacon ''.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

But he was more than half-drunk, and his faculties were dulled.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

`` Yeah, I've heard more about SX-21 than space exploration lately.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

but four Eromonga women are more than a match for the strongest male that ever lived.

She's got more guts than any other woman in the world.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

But Keith looked down more than up.

The sambur buck, the jungle stag that is even more noble than the Scottish elk.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

In most cases, Pinyin romanization more accurately represents Chinese pronunciations than Wade – Giles ; English speakers would read the martial art " Tai Ji Quan " closer to tàijíquán ' great ultimate fist ' than " T ' ai Chi Ch ' üan.

The movements are rather more theatrical than martial arts.

As more and more of its demands were met during the 1990s – such as the direct popular election of Taiwan's president and all representatives in its Legislative Yuan, and open discussion of Taiwan's repressive past as represented in the 2-28 Incident and its long martial law aftermath – a greater variety of views could be advocated in the more liberal political atmosphere.

The state of Georgia is under martial law and life there has taken on a new and more frightening tone.

This definition originally referred to martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

Noguchi studied Muay thai and developed a combined martial art which Noguchi named kick boxing, which absorbed and adopted more rules than techniques from Muay Thai.

Athletes, gymnasts, dancers, and martial artists perform stretching exercises to lengthen their ligaments, making their joints more supple.

As with other action films, martial arts films are dominated by action to varying degrees ; many martial arts films have only a minimal plot and amount of character development and focus almost exclusively on the action, while other martial arts films have more creative and complex plots and characters along with action scenes.

In Chinese-speaking world, martial arts films are commonly divided into two subcategories-the wuxia period films ( 武俠片 ), and the more modern Kung fu films ( 功夫片, best epitomized in the films of Bruce Lee ).

Some martial arts in various cultures can be performed in dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in preparation for battle or showing off skill in a more stylized manner.

Martial traditions have been influenced by governments to become more sport-like for political purposes ; the central impetus for the attempt by the People's Republic of China in transforming Chinese martial arts into the committee-regulated sport of wushu was suppressing what they saw as the potentially subversive aspects of martial training, especially under the traditional system of family lineages.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Wrestlers incorporate kicks and strikes from martial arts disciplines, and a strong emphasis is placed on submission wrestling, and unlike the use of involved storylines in the U. S., they are not as intricate in Japan, more emphasis is placed on the concept of Fighting Spirit, meaning the Wrestlers display of physical and mental stamina are valued a lot more than theatrics.

During the 1980s publications used the terms " fighting game " and " beat ' em up " interchangeably, along with other terms such as " martial arts simulation " ( or more specific terms such as " judo simulator ").

Serious boxing games belong more to the sports game genre than the action game genre, as they aim for a more realistic model of boxing techniques, whereas moves in fighting games tend to be highly exaggerated models of Asian martial arts techniques.

Related to the typical wuxia settings are stories in which superhuman martial arts abilities exist, but practitioners are generals, law enforcers, criminals and so forth ; retaining both elements of wuxia combat but also a functional society more similar in structure to ancient China.

The career civil service officer Major-General ( retired ) Iskander Mirza became the country's first President, but the system did not evolved for more than the three years, when Mirza imposed the martial law in 1958.

Later Lethal Weapon ( 1987 ), proved that low-budget action plots ( like a maverick cop with martial arts skills fighting drug traffickers ), given the " Hollywood A-list " treatment ( bigger budgets, more talented casts, etc.