The prisoners begin a gymnastic exercise using the vaulting horse, while the concealed man digs down below the horse.

He explains that there are sometimes honorable courtiers, but that too often a man who succeeds at court does not hesitate to sacrifice his Sovereign and nation to his own avarice and ambition.

In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her " greatest ambition " was to have a " successful happy marriage "; decades later, in 1975, she would say, " I was never really a career woman but one only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry.

" Both portray him as a man motivated by personal ambition, who uses everyone around him to get his way.

Perhaps his most evident trait was his massive ambition ; " In his ambition he surpassed all men "; " he hankered after public office rather as a man in delirium might crave a cure ".

His poem, " The Aspirant ," continues his theme of poverty and ambition, as a young man in a shabby furnished room describes his own and the other tenants ' dreams, and asks " why?

Razumovsky was a good and simple-minded man, untroubled by personal ambition.

The name was inspired by Captain James Cook, whose journal entry " ambition leads me ... farther than any other man has been before me " inspired the second pilot's title.

It was developed on the site of an earlier building in the first half of the eighteenth century by Jan Klemens Branicki, a wealthy Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman, into a residence suitable for a man whose ambition was to be elected king of Poland.

Cato the Elder, their famous descendant, at the beginning of his career in Rome, was regarded as a novus homo ( new man ), and the feeling of his unsatisfactory position, working along with the belief of his inherent superiority, contributed to aggravate and drive his ambition.

Yet another interpretation of the ten-headed Ravana describe him to be a complete man with nine of his heads representing nine emotions that a man may possess ( viz. anger, pride, jealousy, happiness, sadness, fear, selfishness, passion, ambition ) and one representing the intellect.

While still a young man it became his ambition to occupy a rabbinical position in a larger German town ; for he desired to show the older rabbis that secular and philosophical scholarship could well be harmonized with rabbinical erudition.

Meade was a competent and outwardly modest man, although correspondence with his wife throughout the war suggests he was disguising his ego and ambition.

He was mischievous and a player of pranks, "... a man of ability, but belonging to a cadet set that appeared to have no ambition for class standing and wanted to do only enough study to secure their graduation.

A year after the king's death, Anne, acting as regent, took a passionate fancy for Count Ralph III of Valois, a man whose political ambition encouraged him to repudiate his wife to marry Anne in 1062.

However, after Rubinstein had played his audition, Liszt is reported to have said, " A talented man must win the goal of his ambition by his own unassisted efforts.

Queen Victoria wrote after his death that though she regretted his passing, she had never liked or respected him: " Strange, and solemn to think of that strong, determined man, with so much worldly ambition – gone!

Instead, he encourages her to marry M. Delestang, a man of great wealth who can easily be wheedled, while he himself takes a respectable nonentity of a wife who will not hinder his ambition.

In the five years of his conquests and administration in Bengal, the young man had crowded together a succession of exploits which led Lord Macaulay, in what that historian termed his " flashy " essay on the subject, to compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte, declaring that " gave peace, security, prosperity and such liberty as the case allowed of to millions of Indians, who had for centuries been the prey of oppression, while Napoleon's career of conquest was inspired only by personal ambition, and the absolutism he established vanished with his fall.

Okochi, apparently impressed with Tanaka's energy and ambition, agreed to help the young man start a drafting office in Tokyo.

It is the only exception to his otherwise relentless and ruthless ambition, which includes bullying and threatening to blackmail a sick old man and unintentionally causing his death.

" The first of these two misguided visionaries filled me with a great ambition to do a feat I have never heard of as accomplished by man, namely to convince a circle squarer of his error!

Prior to this, he had been considered a gentle man without political ambition.

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.