The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.

The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.

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.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

`` Another young man, my dear??

Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

`` Husky young man '', he said with mock distaste.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;

Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.

That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.

What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

Homer referred to select young men as kouretes, when Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out kouretes, the bravest among the Achaeans " to bear gifts to Achilles.

A young merchant traveling from Indiana, Michael Doctor Coffeen, built a store adjacent to the mill, and with Thomas created the village of Homer on January 26, 1837.

In the young adult novel Roughnecks by Thomas Cochran, the " Pineview Pelicans " are based on the Homer Pelicans as rivals of the " Oil Camp Roughnecks ".

She spent most of her young life in Homer, living with her father, Atz Kilcher.

The most significant of these new staff members were Homer Rodeheaver, an exceptional song leader and music director who worked with the Sundays for almost twenty years, and Virginia Healey Asher, who ( besides regularly singing duets with Rodeheaver ) directed the women's ministries, especially the evangelization of young working women.

After the war, Homer turned his attention primarily to scenes of childhood and young women, reflecting nostalgia for simpler times, both his own and the nation as a whole.

One critic wrote, " Winslow Homer is one of those few young artists who make a decided impression of their power with their very first contributions to the Academy ... He at this moment wields a better pencil, models better, colors better, than many whom, were it not improper, we could mention as regular contributors to the Academy.

Throughout the 1870s, Homer continued painting mostly rural or idyllic scenes of farm life, children playing, and young adults courting, including Country School ( 1871 ) and The Morning Bell ( 1872 ).

" When a young record shop employee asks what that is, Homer says " The US Festival, sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers!

Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner.

His latest book for young readers, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, set in the American Civil War, was named a Newbery Honor Book in 2010.

The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer.

Homer complains about not being let in and reveals to Marge his past experience being excluded from clubs ; when he was young, a group of children formed the " No Homers Club " and did not allow him to join, though a boy named Homer Glumpet was not rejected.

The " Black Gold " exhibit at the Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum in Homer, Louisiana, features a young roughneck working for the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company during the Claiborne Parish strike of the 1920s and 1930s.

Sommerstein believes that Homer wishes to imply in this reference that Troilus was killed in battle, but argues that Priam's later description of Achilles as andros paidophonoio (" boy-slaying man ") indicates that Homer was aware of the story of Troilus as a murdered child ; Sommerstein believes that Homer is playing here on the ambiguity of the root paido-meaning boy in both the sense of a young male and of a son.

As a young man he lived for a while on a farm in the nearby village of Homer.

Along with returning the $ 2, 000 to Homer, Herb buys several gifts for the Simpson family, including a new washer and dryer for Marge, a subscription to the Greater Books of Western Civilization for Lisa, and a lifetime membership to the NRA for Bart ( since he is too young to have the machine gun he mentioned earlier ).

They point out a mural she painted ( based on an incident at Woodstock where a very young Homer ran around naked in the mud ), which reveals Homer's middle name: " Jay ," which makes no difference to his name's pronunciation.