The sight of the small man in a uniform much too large for his less than 5-foot frame — the army did not issue uniforms small enough — was so disruptively funny that he was excused from parades and marching drills.

For example, " the marching Warriors ," a rock painting at Cingle de la Mola, Castellón in Spain, dated to about 7, 000 – 4, 000 BCE, depicts about 50 bowmen in two groups marching or running in step toward each other, each man carrying a bow in one hand and a fistful of arrows in the other.

alt = Men wearing different clothes are marching while in their center there is a man standing on a car, while holding his hand up with a towel.

At the end of a year, La Barre was replaced by the marquis de Denonville, a man of ability and courage, who, though he showed some vigor in marching against the western Iroquois tribes, angered rather than intimidated them, and the massacre of Lachine on August 5, 1689 must be regarded as one of the unhappy results of his administrations.

( C / U ) shot of another details-a little boat, soldiers marching, a man and his horse ... Voiceover talks about what this represents: " Scotland after the ' 45 rebellion, showing the English troops occupying a castle, and the opposing Highland rebels of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

If I ever have any occasion to observe any man of the Brigade pick his road and go round a pool of water instead of marching through it I am fully determined to bring the officer commanding the Company to which that man belongs to Court Martial.

Should the court acquit the officer it shall not deter me from repeating the same ceremony on any other officer again and again ... I will insist on every soldier marching through water and I will flog any man attempting to avoid it.

Only Rohleder responds ; he carries the dying man outside, where he sees a line of Germans marching away: the Sixth Army has surrendered.

The marching timpani were made of fiberglass, and were played by a four or five man line ( similar to a modern day bass drum line ).

Bestowed with exceptional qualities in a man, he excelled at the English sports of the day: cricket, rugby, cycling, swimming and tennis, he loved outdoors the best developing a rugged and robust physique by trekking, packing, marching and hunting for so long.

' Tourneur's optimism for the future is encapsulated in the final scene in which we see a one-legged man pass by the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol for the world marching onwards in spite of disaster.

As the old man sits on his porch, watching the veterans march past every ANZAC Day, he muses: " The young people ask what are they marching for, and I ask m ' self the same question ".

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

The man leaned against a tree and wiped a sleeve across his face.

The man was leaning against the rock.

At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.

Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.

A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.

I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

The man leaned his frail body against Watson's shoulder.

The man wheezed weakly, his fetid breath beating softly against Watson's neck.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.

Ambushes are laid by those who doubt themselves, as any man may against a tiger.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.

"... Never can a man build a working structure for black capitalism, always does a man read Mao or Fanon ..."

Ginsberg refers to the Cold War as " gang wars across oceans ", and calls capitalism a " vortex of this rage " and a competition " man to man.

As a sequel to 1837, Ryerson ’ s French Canada revealed “ the militant spirit of democracy among French Canadians ” in the hopes of uniting “ them with their Anglophone compatriots .” Ryerson did follow a certain “ great man ” approach to history when, in the early chapters, he emphasized the heroes “ who struggled for self-determination and / or Canadian unity ”; this approach was complemented by an emphasis on “ the Quebec masses and their rise out of feudal subjugation toward political power .” Very much the Historical Materialist, Ryerson viewed the previous administrations of Quebec as working with representatives of English Canada and international capitalism to keep Quebec in economic subservience.

Yet Sir Giles himself expresses the conflict by noting that he is a " city " man — he comes from the financial milieu of the City of London with its worldly and materialistic values, the domain of nascent capitalism in contrast to the older social order rooted in feudalism.

He worked to voice the concerns of the common man who had been oppressed by unrestrained capitalism and special privilege.

Gutiérrez was not widely trusted, but he was seen as the only alternative to rival candidate Álvaro Noboa, the richest man in Ecuador who embodied popular fears of crony capitalism.

The episode placed seventh in a 2003 Entertainment Weekly list of the top 25 episodes, the authors remarking that, " When the animatronics attack, the showdown between man and machine -- okay, Homer and a giant robot mouse -- is an uproarious rebuttal to capitalism run amok.

The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

`` Running around in the moonlight almost naked and slugging a man with a rock ''??

He dropped a man with the first bullet.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The eyes always held Hague, eyes of a dead man, lidless as a lizard's, with the fixed intensity of a cobra.

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

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

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.

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.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

The man said with a tone of impatience.

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.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.

A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

The white girl with the penetrating green eyes sipped the lemonade handed to her by a handsome man of about 30, who had coppery skin and beetling eyebrows.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.

The kid hit the bigger man with an audible thwump!!

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.