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was and big
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.
There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.
He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.
He was big.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.
He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
was and man
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.
The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.
Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.
For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.
was and wanted
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.
The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.
This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.
Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.
The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.
It was fantastic writing, beautiful writing, the man declared, but the public, he insisted, wanted realism.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.
All I ever wanted was to be a free man in my own country.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
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