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For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.
The Deacon Board, headed by a black man named Carlson, had practically taken over as the pastor grew old, and had its way with the support of the Amen corner.
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.
`` There is a man named Grabski who is the foreman in charge of the bricklayers at Majdanek.
`` There's a man outside with a wooden leg named Smith ''.
Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old man named Asher Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.
A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.
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.
Married a man named Vincent Black.
A man named Lars Simon, playwright-director, had expressed a wish that Anthony Payne drop dead.
Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.
At the lycée in Rennes when he was 15, he led of a group of boys who devoted much time and energy to poking fun at their well-meaning, but obese and incompetent physics teacher, a man named Hébert.
Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.
The first European-American settler, Tenney Peabody, arrived in 1833 along with his brother-in-law Charles Blanchard, and a young man named Clark Dowling.
In 779 Abd ar-Rahman offered the job of Zaragoza's governorship to one of Sulayman's allies, a man named al-Husayn ibn Yahiya.
A new Belgian airline named SN Brussels Airlines was subsequently founded by business man Etienne Davignon.
Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.
The field she goes to belongs to a man named Boaz, who is kind to her because he has heard of her loyalty to her mother-in-law.
The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi is a Babylonian text, also known as the " Babylonian Job ", which concerns itself with the unjust suffering of an afflicted man, named Shubshi-meshre-Shakkan.
" The account noted a story of an Aboriginal woman being killed by a bunyip and the " most direct evidence of all " – that of a man named Mumbowran " who showed several deep wounds on his breast made by the claws of the animal ".
They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.
" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

man and Blaine
Twain's friends encourage him to go find a man called Jim Blaine when Blaine is properly drunk, and get Blaine to tell " the stirring story about his grandfather's old ram " ( Chapter 53 ).
Twain, encouraged by his friends who've already heard the story, finally finds the man in his cups to the proper degree, and Blaine, an old silver miner, sets out to tell Twain and his friends the tale.
Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.
Blaine is one of the few people available who is wealthier than Bury, so he is the ideal man for the mission as he can't be bribed.
The man on the right is politician James G. Blaine.
( Further in this episode, Blaine is on his wheelchair, claimed to be a changed man.
Blaine comments “ You are a younger man than I am, Maturin, and it may be that you do not know from experience that the absence of torment may be a worse torment still: you may wish to throw a hair shirt aside, not realizing that it is the hair shirt alone that keeps you warm.
Blaine is the first man to win five consecutive national titles since USA Gymnastics was named the sport's National Governing Body, and the third man to win five consecutive U. S. all-around titles ( or more ) in gymnastics history.
Matthau is also said to be an excellent judge of character, who by his own nature is a very solitary and lonely man keeping most of his contact with Blaine.
Also due to his personal troubles with Captain Blaine in the past, something neither man will talk about, there is very bad blood between them, fueling his general hatred of all pirates.

man and Smythe
However, Smythe had a falling-out with Rickard's hockey man, Col. John S. Hammond, and was fired as manager-coach on the eve of the first season — he was paid a then-hefty $ 2, 500 to leave.
By the age of 17, she had an affair with an older married man, Jamie Smythe, reportedly a big-time marathon promoter.
" The seats at the Gardens had been replaced with new, narrower ones and Smythe commented that " only a slim, young man could sit in them but the prices are so high that only a fat rich man could afford them.
This was achieved, in part, by making the seats narrower, so that — in the words of founder Conn Smythe —" only a young man could sit in them and only a fat old rich man could afford them.
After Alistair Smythe, Kingpin's right hand man, stole the Tablet from Dr. Curt Connors and Tombstone, Silvermane's new hired man, had kidnapped Connors, Hammerhead figured out Tombstone had also kidnapped Kingpin's wife, Vanessa, even though Kingpin didn't know about it until Silvermane sent him a note, telling him he held her hostage.

man and with
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.

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