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??

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.

Figger we got to be plumb careful with any of you Highlands big shots ''.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Real big, with shoulders out to here, and hair all over him like a grizzly.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

A rowdy with a big blob of a nose roared.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

`` There's a big boat anchored near the Place De La Concorde, with a swimming pool in it -- didn't you notice it??

It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.