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.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

With a thoughtful look, the man sat on the pavement, legs straight out in front of him.

The man on the ground began to move ; ;

He walked straight up to the man sitting on the ground and bent over to look at him.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

Rifle leveled on the man, he made a rush.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

One false move on his part and he would be a dead man.

From the man who had leaped in from the high bank outside, as the train had slowed on the grade.

The orphans enter Olaf's ship and are taken to the brig where they are interrogated by the hook-handed man, who is revealed to be Fiona's brother-Fernald.

He later spoke out for black suffrage, though not based solely on race, but rather merit oriented, arguing, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal Negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.

Therefore I propose to the comrades that they devise a way of shifting Stalin from this position and appointing to it another man who in all other respects falls on the other side of the scale from Comrade Stalin, namely, more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and considerate of comrades, less capricious and so forth.

* Guy Montag is the protagonist and fireman who presents the dystopia through the eyes of a worker loyal to it, a man in conflict about it, and one resolved to be free of it.

Humayun was loyal, gentle and humane man by the standards of the day.

Whatever his religion, however, he was still intensely loyal to the Queen, though he seems to have had something of a grudge against her for her remark that he, Dowland, " was a man to serve any prince in the world, but was an obstinate Papist.

His successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a loyal Oda supporter, would become the first man to unify all of Japan, and was thus the first ruler of all Japan since the Ōnin War.

By this time however, the influence of Slobodan Milošević was confined to Serbia only as Montenegro had experienced internal regime change in 1996 when former Milošević ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, showed resilience by becoming leader of his party and subsequently dismissing former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, a man who remained loyal to Milošević.

Between Job 1: 9 – 10 and 2: 4 – 5, ha-Satan merely points out that God has given Job everything that a man could want, so of course Job would be loyal to God ; if all Job has been given, even his health, were to be taken away from him, however, his faith would collapse.

The Aeneid was seen as reflecting this aim, by depicting the heroic Aeneas as a man devoted and loyal to his country and its prominence, rather than personal gains, and going off on a journey for the betterment of Rome.

There, defended by Cadsuane Melaidhrin's Aes Sedai and loyal Asha ' man against the Forsaken, Rand and Nynaeve link and use the Choedan Kal to cleanse saidin of the Dark One's taint so that men who channel will no longer go mad.

Even up till her last moments, she was being reported on by a man named Stephen Lushington, who conveyed his insights to the King's loyal supporter, the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

" In 1864, Governor Johnson said, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.

When he found the man vacillating and unsure, Matt decisively began plans to set up a rump government-in-exile in Regensburg and composed a proclamation calling upon all police, armed forces, and civil servants to remain loyal to the government.

A loyal company man, Tsuburaya continued to work at Toho Studios until his death in 1970.

Having passed his law, Tiberius was lauded as a founding hero not just of a single city or race, but as the founding hero of all the Italians, who had come to endure immense poverty and deprivation, denied of their rightful land because of their military services and having lost work because of the influx of slaves, who were loyal to no man while citizens were loyal to the state.

In spite of pre-War opposition to secession and the number of " transient deserters " in the county, Leverett asserts that the activities of such formerly anti-secessionist individuals as McLemore along with the facts " that virtually every able-bodied man in the county was on active duty in organizations such as those commanded by McLemore ... and that the Union raiding party entering the county in June of 1863 was captured by civilians, and the Union prisoners had to be protected from the local citizens " -- among other facts — present undeniable evidence that the citizens of Jones County were loyal to the Confederacy.

Abu Muslim was a loyal freed man from the eastern Iranian province of Khorasan who had led the Abbasid forces to victory over the Umayyads during the Third Fitna in 749 – 750.

He spent his years on the backbenches-the wilderness years-building support within the grassroots of the party, during this time he remained loyal to the party and served the leader but after the debacle of the " arms crises " neither man trusted the other.

* Don Chuma: Condorito's best, most loyal friend, he is a tall, thin, kind man man who helps Condorito to solve some of his problems, especially the ones related to money.

" Stanley F. Dermott wrote " Tommy was a handsome, charming and generous man and a loyal colleague who formed many long-lasting friendships.

He was a man of generous impulses and unselfish disposition, loyal to his friends to the verge of self-sacrifice ( as is shown by his leaving Delia to accompany Messalla to Asia ), and apparently constant to his mistresses.

The first grave gentleman shakes the box, puts in his hand, and takes out a card, from which he reads the number — then the other grave gentleman turns to that number in the book, and pronounces the name of the juror so numbered, whose name and address are then taken down as one of the forty-eight ; and this process is repeated forty-eight times ... it is said — I say nothing, but it is said — that those two gentlemen know each juror just as well by his number as by his name: and so, when the first takes out a card and finds 253, for example, written on it — if he knows that 253 would vote for the people, and against the Crown, it is said he gives out ( as solemn as he looks ), not 253, but, say, 255, or some loyal number ; and thus a safe man is put on the list.