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 seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

The instrumental method, however, is about 100 times more sensitive and yields numerical results which can be accurately repeated at will over a period of time.

But a tsunami often extends more than 100 miles and sometimes as much as 600 miles from crest to crest.

This means that more than 100 million have no vital touch with the church or religious life '', he told delegates Friday.

In fact, very few customers, anywhere in the nation, were able to get more than 100 shares.

Cocktails and a buffet supper were served to more than 100 persons who had known Dr. Swim when he practiced in Los Angeles.

Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.

The formal ceremony at which the Awards of Merit are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, and is televised live in more than 100 countries annually.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

All other nuclides ( isotopes of hydrogen and all other elements ) have more nucleons than electrons, so the fraction of mass taken by the nucleus is closer to 100 % for all of these types of atoms, than for hydrogen-1 .</ ref > with protons and neutrons having roughly equal mass.

They were mostly chosen by lot, with a much smaller ( and more prestigious ) group of about 100 elected.

ASU offers over 250 majors to undergraduate students, and more than 100 graduate programs leading to numerous masters and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, design and arts, engineering, journalism, education, business, law, nursing, public policy, technology, and sustainability.

In the 1970s, the average aircraft had more than 100 cockpit instruments and controls.

Its membership is more than 100, 000 as of 2011.

On November 8, 2011, voters in more than 100 Georgia cities and counties voted on a bill which would allow stores to sell alcohol on Sundays.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

* Double down The player is allowed to increase the initial bet by up to 100 % in exchange for committing to stand after receiving exactly one more card.

For example, Calgary, Canada-based SemBioSys Genetics, Inc. reports that its safflower-produced insulin will reduce unit costs by over 25 % or more and approximates a reduction in the capital costs associated with building a commercial-scale insulin manufacturing facility of over $ 100 million, compared to traditional biomanufacturing facilities.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The people of Chad speak more than 100 different languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups.

Penrose ’ s shocking conclusion, though, was that obtaining a flat universe without inflation is much more likely than with inflation – by a factor of 10 to the googol ( 10 to the 100 ) power !”

fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable ; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons