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.

& 20 more Mr. Peeter Rowswell tooke order with his master to paie for mee ''.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

-- As an aid in reducing losses due to enterotoxemia ( overeating disease ), feed a complete ration containing not less than 20 and not more than 50 grams of Aureomycin per ton.

So if a green stud makes a carpenter or a drywall finisher or anybody else waste even 20 seconds, the green stud becomes more expensive than a dry stud.

More than 20 million people live on farms and they own a fourth of the nation's trucks, buy more gasoline than any other industry and provide a major market for home appliances, chemicals and other products.

Sizes vary from 20 mm ( Haliotis pulcherrima ) to 200 mm ( or even more ) ( Haliotis rufescens ).

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

In Lebanon more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered between the 1960s and 1990s, among which about 20 outcrops have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

A diesel engine operates under even more extreme conditions, with compression ratios of 20: 1 or more being typical, in order to provide a very high gas temperature which ensures immediate ignition of injected fuel.

Virtually deprived of power, the duke lived for two more years, and died at Tapiau on 20 March 1568.

German and international students are educated in more than 20 international or foreign-oriented programs and can acquire German as well as international degrees ( Bachelor / Master ) or Doppeldiplome ( double degrees ).

The second provided amnesty for all insurgents except those holding property valued at $ 20, 000 or more ; it also appointed a provisional governor for North Carolina and authorized elections.

Some port wines may contain 20 % ABV or more, which is 15 units of alcohol per bottle.

The timing of the opening of the Drake Passage, between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, is more disputed ; tectonic and sediment evidence show that it could have been open as early as pre 34 Ma, estimates of the opening of the Drake passage are between 20 and 40 Ma.

She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.

Overall, more than 20 % of South Vietnam's forests were sprayed at least once over a nine-year period.

Overall, more than 20 % of South Vietnam's forests were sprayed at least once over a nine year period.

The observations were continued, and the star was seen to continue its southerly course until March, when it took up a position some 20 ″ more southerly than its December position.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

The area totals 151 km² ( about 0. 9 times the size of Washington, DC ) and comprises 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands ; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost van Dyke.

The professional army was to be no more than 20, 000 men, including internal forces and border guard.

These cattle have a muscle yield of about 20 % more on average than cattle without the genetic myostatin mutation.