Clayton tried to call back the face of the man he had known.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.

No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

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.

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

He had never seen clouds like them before, but he had the primitive feel of danger that gripped a man before a hurricane in Carolina.

Somehow the thought of a simple man bewildered by things no one had ever really helped him understand moved the driver.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

The man had spoken only once.

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 had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

Waddell had looked the man over, trying to size him up.

A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Al Sobotka is the man responsible for removing the thrown creatures from the ice.

Darwin's book did not address the question of human evolution, saying only that " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history ".

* slinging – a player slung to the ground in a tackle ( although in the AFL these days, if a player loses possession of the ball while they are being thrown, the tackler will often get penalised for " holding the man ".

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

Daegling notes that in 1967, movie and television special effects were primitive compared to the more sophisticated effects in later decades, and allows that if the Patterson film depicts a man in a suit that " it is not unreasonable to suggest that it is better than some of the tackier monster outfits that got thrown together for television at that time.

A young black Chicagoan, Eugene Williams, paddled a raft near a Southside Lake Michigan beach into " white territory ", and drowned after being hit by a rock thrown by a young white man.

Although he avoids the controversial topic of human origins in the rest of the book so as not to prejudice readers against his theory, here he ventures a cautious hint that psychology would be put on a new foundation and that " Light will be thrown on the origin of man ".

MacDonald told his Cabinet he " felt like a man sewn in a sack and thrown into the sea.

In the beginning, he arrives at a castle where a man is thrown out for begging for food.

After pushing the usherette to the ground, the man then clambered onto the stage, and began to smash parts of the set before being restrained by actors and theatre staff, striped and thrown into a bath.

The Loire was the site of thousands of executions by drowning, including those using the method which came to be known as the Republican marriage, in which a man and a woman were stripped naked, tied together, and thrown into the river.

Terrified of facing the same treatment as the man he saw thrown out, the Tramp begins planning how he will fight the huge man.

According to Frederick Karl: " The man who struggled to reach the heights only to be thrown down to the depths embodied all of Kafka's aspirations ; and he remained himself, alone, solitary.

The fact that the man is literally, as far as the audience is concerned, thrown into existence brings to mind the Heideggerian concept of Geworfenheit (‘ Throwness ’).” Heidegger is clearly using the expression metaphorically as is Beckett ; the man is expelled from a womb-like condition, from non-being into being.

He is represented as a young man with a palm-leaf, in a cauldron, sometimes with a raven and a lion, his iconographic attribute because according to the legend he was thrown into a cauldron of boiling tar and molten lead, but miraculously escaped unscathed.

Luke at first is a bitter young man, but as he is increasingly thrown into contact with Sally, a relationship starts to develop.

The lawsuit was thrown out in 1993 based on the fact that the man who brought the suit was not a chieftain, contrary to his claims, and had no standing to bring the suit.

" With one foot upon the neck of priestcraft and the other upon the rock of truth ," he declared, " we have thrown our banner to the breeze and challenge the world to produce a better cause for the devotion of man than that of a grand, noble and perfect humanity.

The first man to be killed in town was Simpson Lee, who was thrown off his horse.

At the same time, " Mr Nasty " -- the man whose briefcase Henry accidentally took on the underground — is killed by " Mr Big " -- the man he had criminal dealings with — and thrown into the Thames near Putney Bridge -- which is quite close to Fulham --, together with Henry's briefcase ( which contains, among other things, a cheese and chutney sandwich ).