It sounded like a man kicking a melon.

Pistol-whipping an unarmed man might come easy to someone like Jess, but Curt couldn't bring himself to do it.

He had never seen clouds like them before, but he had the primitive feel of danger that gripped a man before a hurricane in Carolina.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

like the man, she was entirely naked.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

`` I should, of course '', he said, `` like any other man, be honored and gratified should the Democrats see fit to nominate me.

One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.

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.

Williams also stated: `` Our peace was like the peace of a man who hath the tertian ague ''.

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

Nowhere before in Malraux's pages have we met such impassioned defenders of a `` quality of man '' which transcends the realm of politics and even the realm of action altogether -- both the action of Malraux's early anarchist-adventurers like Perken and Garine, and the self-sacrificing action of dedicated Communists like Kyo Gisors and Katow in Man's Fate.

Thousands of buffalo ( `` bison '' they will never be to the man on the street ) grazing like a mobile brown throw-rug upon the rolling, dusty-green grassland.

Mr. George Hough ( Oct. 30 ) sounds like a business man who waits until the last minute to leave his home or shop.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

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.

When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

A record album of the Red Sox's 1967 season, aptly titled " The Impossible Dream ", featured a song by DJ Jess Cain of praise for " The man they call Yaz ", which included the line " Although ' Yastrzemski ' is a lengthy name / It fits quite nicely in our Hall of Fame.

The officers leave Jess to sleep in her bed, stating that a man will be right outside the front door.

No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

It's not the kind of thing that a man would be proud of.

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

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

One false move on his part and he would be a dead man.

The key man almost certainly would be Col. William W. Wisman, SAC's senior controller.

A white man would not have seen it.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

In any other man this reassurance to the electorate would have caused us a profound moral shock.

It would seem, therefore, that in a civilizational crisis man cannot save himself.

But a novel in which one man Karamazov explored the divisions within his personality would scarcely merit publication in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

and since they in no way match each other, the result would be a monster rather than a man ''.

The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.

The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.

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.