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.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

We dare not seriously affirm it, but all the same it is certain that man came out of the slime of the earth, and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch.

alt = Black and white sketch of a sombre looking man wearing a long black coat.

* The Monty Python sketch " Dr. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease " involves a man ( Michael Palin ) whose discussion of the symptoms with his doctor ( John Cleese ) is in somewhat garbled sequence, a common symptom of the condition.

In a parody sketch titled " The Restaurant Enterprise ", on an episode of Saturday Night Live, Kirk ( guest host William Shatner ) directs McCoy ( Phil Hartman ) to help a man who's choking.

The gag originated in a sketch in which Scott Thompson played a homophobic man who took offense at another man's ( McKinney ) attempt to seduce him by taking him to a Maple Leafs game: " Every time I come to this city, some guy picks me up at the bus station, takes me to a Leaf game, gets me pissed, then tries to blow me.

Such a sketch can include footage of a " man on the street ", pioneered by American television personality Steve Allen on evening comedy television programs like The Tonight Show.

The recording was eventually broadcast on Pat Dixon's Mirror of the Month programme and after receiving a good response led to another sketch in which Unwin was interviewed as a man from Atlantis being asked about life in the sunken city.

* Eddie Murphy starred in a 1983 Saturday Night Live sketch, playing the role of Clarence Walker, a man who claimed to be the fifth Beatle.

The Traité is a general sketch of the nature of God and the nature of man.

" Vincent Canby's review for The New York Times praised Martin's performance: " the film has an actor who's one of America's best sketch artists, a man blessed with a great sense of timing, who is also self-effacing enough to meet the most cockeyed demands of the material.

* A sketch in an episode of the Canadian TV series The Kids in the Hall features an attempt to stage the act, which is foiled by a straight man ( Dave Foley ) who is at first inattentive, and then outsmarts the joke by explaining, in tedious detail, why the other comedian was confused.

A contemporary sketch of Lincoln Castle in England at the start of the 13th century, defended by a crossbow man

He hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, in which he appeared in drag in a sketch about a man ( Kenan Thompson ) with a broken leg who accuses his doctor of being dishonest.

His principal work, Rapports du physique et du moral de l ' homme ( On the relations between the physical and moral aspects of man, 1802 ), consists in part of memoirs, read in 1796 and 1797 to the Institute, and is a sketch of physiological psychology.

Peet then officially began working as a sketch artist, putting the words of a story man into pictures on the film.

When Johns gave her statement to the sergeant on duty, she noticed the police composite sketch of Paul Stine's killer and recognized him as the man who abducted her and her child.

The sketch differs from the poem in that the figure is of a woman rather than a man, and Smith scholar Laura Severin suggests that the figure might be Mary, a character in another poem by Smith entitled " Cool as a Cucumber.

In addition, a common theme of the show's humor was to introduce a sketch with a " straight man " character caught in a ridiculous premise, then turn the sketch around by making the premise turn out to be correct.

* Internet comedy sketch group Derrick Comedy features a man with Korsakoff's syndrome in their video " Progression of a Mad Hatter ".

: A sketch where a simple-minded man ( Ron Coden ) tries to outwit problems, but gets socked back.

During his years there, he exhibited several pieces at the Salon: small groups of rabbits, a bust of a black man, a sketch from an American Indian group, and a sleeping faun with a rabbit.

In 1825 it happened that Sir Walter Scott was travelling in Ireland, and young Maclise, having seen him in a bookseller's shop, made a surreptitious sketch of the great man, which he afterwards lithographed.