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.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Lifelong Orioles fan and former MLB Fan Cave resident Ryan Wagner is the current PA announcer after being chosen out of a field of more than 670 applicants in the 2011-2012 offseason.

His films introduced a slower, more expressive form of comedy than the typical Keystone farce, and he developed a large fan base.

He wrote in his autobiography that he received more fan mail about his role as Mr. Freeze than about all of his other roles combined.

The subject of fan interest can be narrowly defined, focused on something like an individual celebrity, or more widely defined, encompassing entire hobbies, genres or fashions.

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

This set marked the first time in history that a musician had signed an exclusive music distribution deal with a single retailer .< ref name =" newman "> The set sold more than 500, 000 physical copies on its issue date, proving that Brooks still had a large fan base.

The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised branches of the Association of International Branches ( AIB ) in at least 30 countries.

The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised branches of the Manchester United Supporters Club ( MUSC ), in at least 24 countries.

The Brewers parted ways with 2006 starters Doug Davis and Tomo Ohka, as well as fan favorite Jeff Cirillo, who wanted more playing time with another team.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

The former proved much more influential on female fan styles.

McDaniels — who had become a fan of thoughtful singer-songwriters like John Lennon, Harry Chapin, and Sarah McLachlan — wanted to go in a more introspective direction.

Such engines usually feature an inlet, fan, compressor, combustor and nozzle ( possibly other assemblies ) in addition to one or more turbines.

The larger cities offered baseball teams national media distribution systems and fan bases that could generate more robust revenues, enabling teams to hire the best players in the country.

Freddie Mercury ( then known as Farrokh / Freddie Bulsara ) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in 1970.

Since then, the fan community has made improvements that feature OpenGL-based, high-resolution graphics, support for Lua, a slew of internal structural changes allowing for more advanced 3rd party mods, and Internet-capable TCP / IP-based multiplayer ( whereas the original games had only featured AppleTalk-based LAN capabilities ).

Although we are reminded several times of her fidelity, Penelope does begin to become restless ( in part because of Athena's meddling ), and longs to " display herself to her suitors, fan their hearts, inflame them more " ( xviii. 183-84 ).

As so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction ... Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitor's desire for her and ( thereby ) make her more esteemed by her husband and son ; Penelope has no real motive ... she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes ... adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus ( which she will indeed do ).

Harris, a country-music fan, turned Baez toward more complex country-rock influences beginning with David's Album.

It will have only one fan if it is a single-toned siren, while if it is a dual-toned siren, it will have either one fan on each end or two fans in a stack on one end, with one fan having a few more blades than the other.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.