It sounded like a man kicking a melon.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

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.

The term was usually replaced in literature of the Early Modern English period by classically-derived equivalents, or " wild man ", but it survives in the form of the surname Wodehouse or Woodhouse ( for instance in the name of the author P. G. Wodehouse, or Jane Austen's character Emma Woodhouse ).

Throughout his childhood two traits were observed that later characterized the man and the poet: he had a most scrupulous regard for neatness and cleanliness, and he lived and experienced more deeply in memory than in the immediate present.

That every member of society hath a right to be protected in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, and therefore is bound to contribute his proportion towards the expense of that protection, and yield his personal service when necessary, or an equivalent thereto: But no part of a man's property can be justly taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of his legal representatives: Nor can any man who is conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, be justly compelled thereto, if he will pay such equivalent, nor are the people bound by any laws, but such as they have in like manner assented to, for their common good.

" Birdboot adamantly repeats that he is " a man of ... scrupulous integrity ," however his actions suggest otherwise.

In 1173 Pope Alexander III, after reprimanding certain bishops for having permitted veneration of a man who was far from being a saint, decreed: " You shall not therefore presume to honour him in the future ; for, even if miracles were worked through him, it is not lawful for you to venerate him as a saint without the authority of the Catholic Church.

: For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves ; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due.

We could never have imagined ( had we not seen it fall out in experience ) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .... And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

* The eighteenth law is that no man should serve as a judge in a case if greater profit, or honour, or pleasure apparently ariseth him out of the victory of one party, than of the other.

David Hume described him as a man who used dissimulation to conceal " his fierce and savage nature " and who had " abandoned all principles of honour and humanity ".

Furthermore, the Universal House of Justice is instructed by Bahá ' u ' lláh to exert a positive influence on the general welfare of humankind, to promote a permanent peace among the nations of the world, ensure the " training of peoples, the up building of nations, the protection of man and the safeguarding of his honour ".

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

:‘ For Motets and musick of piety and devotion, as well as for the honour of our Nation, as the merit of the man, I prefer above all our Phoenix M William Byrd, whom in that kind, I know not whether any may equall, I am sure none excel, even by the judgement of France and Italy, who are very sparing in the commendation of strangers, in regard of that conceipt they hold of themselves.

The governments of Norway and Denmark both submitted notes of protest, complaining it was outrageous for the Kiel government to honour a man who been convicted of aggression against their nations.

Pausanias ' desire for revenge seems to have turned towards the man who had failed to avenge his damaged honour ; so he planned to kill Philip, and some time after the alleged rape, while Attalus was already in Asia fighting the Persians, put his plan in action.

" ( I Corinthians 6: 19 ) and he argued that to make himself a fit habitation for the divine a man must, besides holding the Catholic faith and doing works of love, renounce marriage and earthly honour, and practise a hard asceticism.

George in return thought that Fox had " cast off every principle of common honour and honesty ... man who is as contemptible as he is odious ... has an aversion to all restraints.

In his Letters on the Study of History ( 1752 ), Bolingbroke declared – " I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justice to that great man ... memory as the greatest general, and as the greatest minister that our country, or perhaps any other has produced, I honour.

Caesar's adopted heir Augustus ended Rome's civil war and became princeps (" leading man ") of the Republic, and in 30 / 29 BCE, the koina of Asia and Bithynia requested permission to honour him as a living divus.

Coke, although crying, declared that he did not know whether he would be allowed to speak in Parliament again, but named Buckingham anyway, saying that " the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof we shall never go out with honour, or sit with honour here ; that man is the grievance of grievances ; let us set down the cause of all our disasters and they will reflect upon him ".

In several traditions, the best man or maid of honour has the duty of keeping track of a couple's wedding rings and to produce them at the symbolic moment of the giving and receiving of the rings during the traditional marriage ceremony.

The doctrine which The United Irishman was to follow was stated as follows: " that the Irish people had a distinct and indefeasible right to their country, and to all the moral and material wealth and resources thereof, to possess, to govern the same, for their own use, maintenance, comfort and honour, as a distinct Sovereign State ; that it was within their power and their manifest duty to make good and exercise that right ; that the life of one peasant was as precious as the life of one nobleman or gentleman ; that the property of the farmers and labourers of Ireland was as sacred as the property of all the noblemen and gentlemen in Ireland, and also immeasurably more valuable ; that the Tenant Right custom should be extended to all Ulster, and adopted and enforced by common consent in the other three provinces ; that every man who paid taxes should have an equal voice with every other man in the government of the State and the outlay of those taxes ; that no man at present had any ' legal ' rights or claim to the protection of any law and that all ' legal ' and constitutional agitation in Ireland was a delusion ; that every freeman, and every man who desired to become free, ought to have arms, and to practise the use of them ; that no ' combination of classes ' in Ireland was desirable, just, or possible save on the terms of the rights of the industrious classes being acknowledged and secured ; and that no good thing could come from the English Parliament or the English Government ".