A man dives into the Bay

Nearly a century after Dominic's birth, a local author asserted that Dominic's father was " vir venerabilis et dives in populo suo " (" an honoured and wealthy man in his village ").

Jack dives into the water to help, discovering a dead man and a young woman, still alive, trapped inside the submerged car.

The traditional " name " Dives, is not in fact a name but the word for " rich man ", dives, in the text of the Latin Bible, the Vulgate.

In some European countries, the Latin description dives ( Latin for " the rich man ") is treated as his proper name: Dives.

The pope dives into the experience of original man through the book of Genesis, and identifies two unique experiences: original solitude, and original unity.

`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.

Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley.

The man shoved him into the water, then ran past the cabana.

The big man asked again, taking a step into the boxcar.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

The image of the world tends to reflect the hostility and indifference of man or else to dissolve into empty spaces and overwhelming mystery.

In order to save the mystery story, they have converted the private detective into an organization man.

The long road that had taken liberals in this country into the social religion of democracy, into a worship of man, led logically to the Marxist dream of a classless society under a Socialist State.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.

The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.

It is this larger theme of the `` quality of man '', a quality that transcends the ideological and flows into `` the human '', which now forms the pulsating heart of Malraux's artistic universe.

Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.

Religion at its best also offers the experience of spiritual fulfillment by inviting man into the highest realm of the spirit.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

Rangoni and Amonasro have the same purpose -- forcing the girl to charm the man she loves into serving her country's cause -- and their tactics are much the same.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

Magwitch terrifies Pip into stealing a pork pie for him by creating the image in the boy's imagination of a bogy man who may `` softly creep his way to him and tear him open '', `` imbruing his hands '' in him.

Some modern sources allude to a linguistic connection between the bunyip and Bunjil, " a mythic ' Great Man ' who made the mountains and rivers and man and all the animals.

Caligula, a man who could not swim, then proceeded to ride his favorite horse, Incitatus, across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.

The Bennington Gazette wrote of the local hero, " the patriotism and strong attachment which ever appeared uniform in the breast of this Great Man, was worth of his exalted character ; the public have to lament the loss of a man who has rendered them great service ".

The Great Conversation and the set of related great books changes as the representative thought of man changes or progresses, and is therefore representative of an evolution of thought, but is not based upon the whim or fancy of the latest cultural fads.

Eusebius of Nicomedia ( died 341 ) was the man who baptised Constantine the Great.

He used this rather disparaging term in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford: He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘ lives cleanly ’, ( two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed ).

This was directed by Hugh Hudson and featured Kinnock's 1985 conference speech, and shots of him and Glenys walking on the Great Orme in Llandudno ( so emphasising his appeal as a family man and associating him with images of Wales away from the coalmining communities where he grew up ), and a speech to that year's Welsh Labour Party conference asking why he was the " first Kinnock in a thousand generations " to go to university.

Einstein had previously explored this belief that man could not understand the nature of God in an interview published in 1930 in G. S. Viereck's book Glimpses of the Great explaining: I am not an Atheist.

For example, a complex statement by Richard Whately includes four puns: " Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert?

Proponents of this theory also claim that Alfred the Great was a descendant of Shem because he claimed to descend from Sceafa, a marooned man who came to Britain on a boat after a flood.

Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.

In the 17th century English Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned slavery ( by then applied mostly to Africans ) as un-Christian ; in the 18th century, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening in the Thirteen Colonies ; and in the same period, rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man.

Until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engagement could be sued for breach of promise.

In 2008's The Great Buck Howard, Hanks played the on-screen father of a young man ( Hanks ' real-life son, Colin Hanks ) who chooses to follow in the footsteps of a fading magician ( John Malkovich ).

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

John Edward Lloyd gave the following assessment of Llywelyn: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends ; his patriotic statemanship will always entitle him to wear the proud style of Llywelyn the Great.

In The Great Gatsby, Hill is the man whom Gatsby's father says Gatsby would have equalled if he had lived long enough.

Stanton changed a few words of the Declaration of Independence to make it appropriate for a statement by women, replacing " The history of the present King of Great Britain " with " The history of mankind " as the basis for " usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

It gave Hitler's international reputation an important boost for two reasons: one, he was able to play the part of a man of reason and compromise ; and two, he could boast that his predictions that Great Britain and France would not respond with war had proven to be correct.

Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression — George Milton ( Burgess Meredith ), an intelligent and quick-witted man, and Lennie Small ( Lon Chaney, Jr .), an ironically-named man of large stature and immense strength but limited mental abilities — come to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas, California to " work up a stake.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

In Stephen Vincent Benét's 1937 story " By the Waters of Babylon " ( originally titled " The Place of the Gods "), a young man explores the ruins of a city in the northeastern United States, possibly New York, generations after a war in which future weapons caused " The Great Burning ".

Ribaldi teaches him that his father is a sad man who needs love and understanding during the hard times of the Great Depression.