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He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
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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 was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;
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 wearing
She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.
A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.
United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;
Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.
The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties -- straight-backed, somewhat clerical in manner, wearing rimless glasses.
He was wearing sneakers and shorts and an open-collared shirt, and in his hand he carried a little black bag.
The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.
She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.
She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
Another frequent pioneer difficulty, caused by wearing rough and heavy shoes and boots, was corns.
Dean Thaddeus Seymour, wearing ski clothes, was crowning a beauteous damsel queen of the Carnival.
If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.
She was wearing a brown cotton dress, cut across the hips in a way that was supposed to make her look slimmer, a yoke set into the skirt and flaring pleats below.
This was the same, except that it was the murder of one man by two men and neither of us was wearing gloves.
Eugenia hated being cold worse than anything, and she was beginning to find the joys of poverty wearing thin.
The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;
She was wearing some sort of gray blazer.
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