He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

He wasn't a big man ; ;

`` Having all the guns makes you a big man, don't it, Adams??

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

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.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

The big man asked again, taking a step into the boxcar.

The man stalked toward them, his big boots heavy on the wooden flooring.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

He was a big thick beefy violent man.

The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.

He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.

A clerk in the outer office took him in to Sheriff Carruthers, a big, paunchy man with thick, white hair and a voice with a senatorial resonance which suggested he should be running for higher office.

A man with so big and so staggeringly developed a torso and such long and powerful arms is expected to stand taller than five feet five.

He's always like that, in spite of being a big man.

This refugee was a middle-aged man, a big, handsome man with a strut to his walk as I have never before seen.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

He was six feet one like his father, with big hands and a hairy chest, a man the weak and persecuted would turn to.

But he had been busy building a business, being a big man in his own town just as he had been a big man at Hanford, Class of 1935.

The huge post-season crowds at their temporary home, Municipal Stadium, caught the attention of the big league brass and helped open the door to the return of major league baseball to Baltimore.

Beathard decided to rebuild the Chargers using the same model that he used to build the Redskins into Super Bowl contenders during the 1980s – a powerful running game built around big lineman, a passing game that helped sustain extremely long drives, and a bending but steady defense.

Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

They helped the American Expeditionary Forces win several key battles in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, during the final big German push of the war.

Bevan was appointed Minister of Labour ( during which he helped to secure a deal for railwaymen which provided them with a big pay increase ) in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles — created in order to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

During an innings stretching over three days due to intermittent rain, Bradman made yet another multiple century, this time 232, which helped give Australia a big lead of 290 runs.

Both series greatly helped Filmation's popularity to increase, into the 1970s, when it really scored big with several of its shows.

Located at the head of navigation, the falls of the Cochecho River helped bring the Industrial Revolution to 19th century Dover in a big way.

After a big slump in tourism beginning from approximately 1929 and lasting after World War II, Italy returned to its status as a popular resort, with the Italian economic miracle and raised living standards ; films such as La Dolce Vita were successful abroad, and their depiction of the country's perceivedly idyllic life helped raise Italy's international profile.

Jim loves her and, helped by Margaret ’ s daughter Gretchen ( Natalie Wood ), tries to make Margaret see that her big screen days as a famous actress are already over.

Peet helped here as well, but received his big break after the war was over.

The last big chart hit for Stax was " Woman to Woman " from Shirley Brown in 1974, and the single's success helped delay the inevitable demise of the company for several months.

A Danish band with a big impact outside of Denmark is the europop group Aqua, whose hit " Barbie Girl " helped the band sell a total of 15 million albums and 6 million singles.

His grandmother, Bertha, was a big influence on the young Kenneth, and indeed helped to maintain the family financially during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

However, due to big scandals, corruption and some illegal actions of this coalition, CHP withdrew its support from the coalition and helped bring down the government with a " no confidence " vote.

His first big hit was the 1994 Australian film Muriel's Wedding, which helped launch the careers of actors Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.

After 1925, Strasser's outstanding organizational skill helped the NSDAP to make a big step from a marginal South German splinter party to a nationwide mass party, appealing to the lower classes and their tendency towards socialism.

Family farms and the big hotel helped the community grow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but Carlsbad Springs ' boom as a resort ended in the Great Depression of the 1930s, and by WWII, the resort and spa business dwindled.

The target for this operation was the Vistula Bridgehead and the enormous anti-tank artillery forces helped repulse big counter-attacks by German armoured formations in August – October 1944.

However, despite most past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant – Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the back of Southern Miss defensive back Jasper Faulk in 2005, a 31 – 3 victory over No. 5 Florida in 2005, the Roman Harper-forced fumble against Tennessee in 2005 that helped the Tide to victory, Alabama's 36-0 shutout victory against Auburn in 2008 thus breaking the six-game losing streak and first ever Iron Bowl victory in Bryant – Denny Stadium, and Terrence Cody's field goal block against Tennessee as time expired in 2009.

Sheridan tells Delenn a story about how his father helped him sleep prior to a big examination in the Earthforce academy by spraying the roof with water from a hose in order to mimic the effect of rain.

Responsible for writing much of the early Gardnerian religious liturgy, in later years she also helped to play a big part in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to wider public attention through the publication of a string of books on the subject.

His visible and enthusiastic endorsement helped Imperial forge a reputation as the " driver's car " among the big three luxury makes.

It was the first of Domino's 35 US Top 40 hits and helped establish his career ; he also played piano on Lloyd Price's big 1952 hit, " Lawdy, Miss Clawdy ".