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He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.
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saw and man
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.
Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.
He saw the figure of a man in a poncho coming up the company street, with an armful of wood.
He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.
A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.
The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.
Although she found she was thirsty, she was about to refuse ( never, never take candy from a strange man ) when she saw the bottle was unopened.
The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.
At 3:57 a.m., with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward the cockpit.
She felt, rather than saw, the approach of the good-looking young man.
No one saw her except the man Reuveni ''.
He viewed Christ as the cause and reason for the reconciliation of man with God after the fall of Adam, and he saw in Christ the path to Christian salvation.
“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.
* ( accusative ) " man " a direct object ( e. g., toward the man, in the sense of argument directed personally ; I saw the man )
Nez Perce has a three-way nominal case system with both ergative (- nim ) and accusative (- ne ) plus an absolute ( unmarked ) case for intransitive subjects: hipáayna qíiwn ‘ the old man arrived ’; hipáayna wewúkiye ‘ the elk arrived ’; wewúkiyene péexne qíiwnim ‘ the old man saw an elk ’.
Erasmus saw him as a dumb brutal man preferring physical strength over wisdom.
Some scientists speculated they saw a " little man " ( homunculus ) inside each sperm.
saw and with
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.
Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.
He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.
They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.
Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.
To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.
It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.
Looking around slowly, he saw a marble fireplace, a desk, a low bookcase of mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of glass panes in the doors.
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.
At the landing she saw Juanita, her face flushed pink with excitement, run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door.
The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes, glazed with an insane fear.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
He saw the land with a stranger's eyes, all the old familiarness gone.
He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.
His eyes were old and they never saw well, but heated with whisky they'd glare at my noise, growing red and raising up his rage.
saw and spade
These include backhoe, hydraulic breaker, pallet forks, angle broom, sweeper, auger, mower, snow blower, stump grinder, tree spade, trencher, dumping hopper, ripper, tillers, grapple, tilt, roller, snow blade, wheel saw, cement mixer, and wood chipper machine.
The Ordnance Survey's First Series map ( 1834 ) identifies a forge in this area, of which John Willets ( a forgeman ), John Page ( a spade maker ), and John Harris ( a saw maker ) have all been identified as proprietors.
saw and beard
" He quickly grew a beard after graduation and a fellow officer remarked that he was " the only man he ever saw that beard improved.
The story goes that French visitors to the Caribbean saw a pig being cooked whole and described the method as barbe à queue, meaning " from beard to tail ".
Epictetus saw his beard as an integral part of his identity and held that he would rather be executed than submit to any force demanding he remove it.
Next time we saw him, he had cut off his beard, and was wearing a black leather jacket, with his chest hanging out, with some chains and just sweating like a son of a gun.
In Nineveh, when the Elamite ambassadors saw the head they lost control ; one tore out his beard and the other committed suicide but this wasn't enough.
She recalled later, " I figured I would meet an old, dignified man with a white beard ... but I saw this tall, brown, handsome, aristocratic 30 year old guy.
At the station, we saw a rattletrap of a streetcar, which had as its crew and skipper a wistful old codger with an Airedale beard.
According to later accounts, Clémentine Delait visited a carnival, saw a bearded woman with some stubble and boasted that she could grow a better beard herself.
It has been reported that when Muhammad once saw a person offering Salaah, as well as playing with his beard, he remarked: " Had he khushu in his heart, his body would have manifested it.
A later story ( from the 1940 Beano Book ) saw Dan climb inside a horse skin and use his beard as a tail to win a " horse tail contest ".
An English sailor who saw him in Tunis in 1608 described Ward as " very short with little hair, and that quite white, bald in front ; swarthy face and beard.
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