I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

And you love Ahmiri, that black bastard of a servant even a little more, because he's a beautiful man.

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

A little later, the sports shop man returned with a small pup tent.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

Oedipus and Lear instruct us how little of the world belongs to man.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.

This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;

In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.

Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

Progress in predicting water conditions is encouraging, but little guidance is available to the man at sea on the use of such information.

Naturally, such scholarly facts are of little concern to the man trying to make money or fan patriotism by means of folklore.

The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.

She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

He was not a superstitious man, but he felt perhaps there was a little something in that, indeed.

They lay a little too stiffly, with their eyes straining to stay closed.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

Wild boar watched their progress with little pig eyes, and grunted derision when they didn't consider such game worthy of a shot from the.

Shaffner looked at him, altogether without guile, and shrugged his shoulders, making a little spreading gesture with his two hands.

She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

`` Miss Langford, come out and play with us like you promised '', several of the little girls called.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

But Dandy had had little experience with girls on his master's plantation in Bayou St. John.

Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

In method as well as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '', anticipates a kind of musical composition, as well as a kind of fictional composition, in which, as Leverkuhn says, `` there shall be nothing unthematic ''.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

A brief list of the great detective's little idiosyncrasies would provide Dr. Freud with ample food for thought.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

The weather turned warmer and with it came better appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-color.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

For those little men with the short whiskers, shaven polls, and top knots Suvorov reserved a special esteem.