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 ''.

They headed in that direction and, at San Juan Capistrano By-the-Sea came upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission Drive-in, eating a hot tamale.

She retreated before the naked shame in the old man and the fury beyond it and sank into the darkness of her lodge where Walitzee stirred, mumbling, sitting up in a half stupor to say:

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

" I wouldn't mind doing something with them as these two dirty old men sitting on the couch.

In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning " flies ' mushroom ") This is how the mushroom got another of its names, Krötenstuhl ( a less-used German name for the mushroom ), literally translating to " toad-stool ".

Helen Reed, an English novelist in her early forties with two children old enough to look after themselves, arrives on campus to spend the term there as " writer-in-residence " and to teach a creative writing class — actually sitting in for a professor who is spending the term abroad to write a novel.

For example, a typical 15 year old American adolescent spends approximately 6 hours a day sitting in front of screens, but less than 1 hour doing physical activity.

All the old machinery is still there, sitting where it was when the family sold the property to the Government in the 1980s.

The film ends with Michael, an old man, sitting in the garden of Don Tommasino's Sicilian villa.

The coat-of-arms is inspired by the old seal of the Frostating, where King Magnus VI the law-mender is sitting with a lily sceptre in his hand.

Osho later said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old, in a mystical experience while sitting under a tree in the Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur.

" When I sit down ( now ), they're sitting in a room with someone who's old enough to be their father and I'm not sure they want to sit in a room with their fathers.

* the old lady and her knitting play out a sequence of their own from page to page, starting with the knitting lying on the rocking chair, the old lady sitting in the chair with the ball of yarn on the floor at her feet, the ball farther away and starting to be unraveled by the kittens, the ball unraveled further, the ball entirely rerolled and back on the old lady's lap with the kittens regarding her expectantly, and finally with the lady and the knitting both gone and the kittens sleeping on the rocking chair.

He enters a citadel of sorts where he confronts an old and withered but plucky man with long gray hair sitting on a throne, with two blonde women to either side of him.

I am sitting in my old garret, at my old desk, smoking my old pipe ...

* An old woman holding a rose is revealed to be sitting atop a tall gravestone, at the bottom of which is a stone bust of her husband George with a hatchet embedded in his head.

* Other animals living in Zuckerman ’ s barn with whom Wilbur converses are a disdainful lamb, a goose who is constantly sitting on her eggs, and an old sheep.

Undoing the bottom button avoids stress to the bottom button when sitting down ; when it is fastened, the bottom of the waistcoat pulls sideways causing wrinkling and bulging, since modern waistcoats are cut lower than old ones.

The geology of Clear Lake is chaotic, with numerous small faults being present in the south end of the lake as well as many old volcanoes, the largest being Mount Konocti, sitting at the middle of the lake's south shore.

In January 1973, when Shankly was the subject of This Is Your Life, the goal was shown and Shankly commented that " they all count and we won " before spotting old friend Joe Mercer sitting nearby and pointing out that " Joe Mercer was playing for England that day ".