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.

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.

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 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 duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

In the 1930s, a big game hunter named Marmaduke Wetherell went to Loch Ness to look for the Loch Ness Monster.

-choked " oceans " and a big icy moon, ironically named Desert Isle.

The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.

It was also often named Lille Fosen (" the small Fosen ") to distinguish it from the island Storfosna (" the big Fosen ") in Ørland.

The largest crocodile ever held in captivity is an estuarine – Siamese hybrid named Yai (, meaning big ) ( born 10 June 1972 ) at the famous Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo, Thailand.

* Basarab I, after the battle against the Tatars, is named " big prince " of Wallachia by the feudal lords of the region.

A big park in Pune city ( the city which he had adopted as home town ) has been named after him.

* The first release of Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X was code-named " Cheetah ", which set the pattern for the subsequent releases being named after big cats.

He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named " The Country of Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( Quebec City ) and at Hochelaga ( Montreal Island ).

It was named for the Lake Okeechobee, which was itself named for Hitchiti words oka ( water ) and chobi ( big ).

The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call " Papa's recipe "; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth ( a Walton cousin ); a black couple, Verdie and Harley Foster ; Maude, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood ; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house ; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation.

Essex, Newburyport, Salisbuy, and Amesbury, all big producers of dories, are all towns immediately north of Cape Ann and all have a particular dory ' type ' named after them.

( Brooks West ) is assisted by a high-powered big city prosecutor named Claude Dancer ( George C. Scott ).

A contrasting version of Custer's death is suggested by the testimony of an Oglala named Joseph White Cow Bull, according to novelist and Custer biographer Evan Connell, who relates that Joseph White Bull stated he had shot a rider at the riverside wearing a buckskin jacket and big hat when the soldiers first approached the village from the east.

" It also accused the United States of manipulating the investigation and named the administration of U. S. President Barack Obama directly of using the case for " escalating instability in the Asia-Pacific region, containing big powers and emerging unchallenged in the region.

Great Bend, named for its location at the historic big bend of the Arkansas River, is the most populous city in and the county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States.

The early French explorers named the island as la grosse ile — the " big island " in French.

The town name is supposed to have originated from an Indian named Sitting Duck, who lived on top of the big hill just as one enters the town coming from Grenada.

The name " Chillicothe " is Shawnee for " big town ", and was named after their Chillicothe, located since 1774 about a mile from the present-day city.

In the anime, Minako is given a slightly different backstory, having spent some of her time as Sailor V in England, where she met a young Interpol officer named Katarina who taught her English and acted as a big sister, and a young man called Alan, with whom she fell in love.

** tidal creeks, which reached from the sea into the marsh, the Townlands and in some places, the fen, and seem to have been named only if big enough to be regarded as havens ;

Although Plano is named for the flat plains of the area, large trees abound in the city's many parks ( Plano's map of big trees ).