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.

In terms of his personality, information shows that William Harvey was seen as a "... humorous but extremely precise man ...", how he was often so immersed in his own thoughts that he would often suffer from insomnia ( cured with a simple walk through the house ), and how he was always ready for an open and direct conversation.

This man, Norman Jeffries, was working on Monroe's kitchen floor on Saturday morning, August 4, 1962 when Monroe walked over to him looking as if she were ill or suffering from insomnia, according to a story he told Anthony Summers in the early 1980s.

Clayton tried to call back the face of the man he had known.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

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

Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.

No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

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.

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

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.

Somehow the thought of a simple man bewildered by things no one had ever really helped him understand moved the driver.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

The man had spoken only once.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

Waddell had looked the man over, trying to size him up.