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

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

`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!

`` It was mighty good for the old man to get out again ''.

Above all read in Jens Bjerre's The Last Cannibal Show the old man of the Wailbri tribe ( not cannibals ) in central Australia gave to the white man his choicest possession, while the tears streamed down his face.

Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.

The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.

`` So, we have to protect the old man for his own good.

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.

Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

He thought of the old man laughing under the glitter of the great chandelier.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

`` Everybody knows I'm just a harmless, deaf old man who takes to drink.

She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man.

And the old man had given a sly and wicked laugh and said, `` Hell, yes!!

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

Ma never went near the old man when he was sleeping it off.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

`` Fuss, fuss, old man ''.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

`` Look, an old man.

A man gets old anyhow ''.

His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly.

He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris.

In addition, Walker, who had been with the team since 1995 and was widely regarded as the best player in team history, was now 37 years old, and injuries prevented him from playing much of the time.

One factor in the Red Wings ' decline was the end of the old " development " system, which allowed Adams to get young prospects to commit to playing for Detroit as early as their 16th birthday.

Many very old double basses have had their shoulders cut or sloped to aid playing with modern techniques.

A quote from the Akron Beacon Journal elucidates, "... Devo recently finished a new project in cahoots with Disney called Devo 2. 0, which features the band playing old songs and two new ones with vocals provided by children.

The national team has often been criticized for playing an old fashioned long ball style game and having poor technical skills which has prevented them achieving success.

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

Judit started playing in tournaments at six years old and by age nine her rating with the Hungarian Chess Federation was 2080.

When he was five years old, Palin had his first acting experience at Birkdale playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol.

He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.

" In a foreshadowing way, Cruz remembers when she was four years old, " playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them — I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

A number of popular recordings featured " prepared pianos ," playing rags on pianos with tacks on the hammers and the instrument deliberately somewhat out of tune, supposedly to simulate the sound of a piano in an old honky tonk.

" We figured we could win if our offense didn't put us into too many holes ", said 35-year old Colts lineman Billy Ray Smith, who was playing in his last NFL game, " Let me put it this way, they didn't put us into any holes we couldn't get out of "

The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence ; it is over 2, 700 years old.

She appeared in the third episode of Season 3 of NBC's 30 Rock playing Liz Lemon's old college roommate who stalks Jack Donaghy.

Wickenheiser started playing minor hockey on outdoor rinks in her hometown of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan when she was five years old.

Like many old whistles, they had lead fipple plugs, and since lead is poisonous, caution should be exercised before playing an old whistle.

When Baldwin was thirteen years old, he was playing with some children, who were trying to cause each other pain by scratching each others ' arms.

The Academy's new building opened in September 2011, and the demolition of the old school site, making way for new playing fields to be laid out, will be completed by Spring 2012.

He taught himself to play guitar by playing along to old blues records.

He began playing for a local team, EDO, when he was six years old.