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man and leaned
The man leaned his frail body against Watson's shoulder.
* March 2, 2008: A man fell out of a gondola in Chamonix and died, perhaps after he and one of his friends leaned on and broke the plexiglass window.
* Thirteen Against the Bank-true story about a man who leaned how to beat the bank at Monte Carlo
Vice President Bush leaned over afterwards and whispered, ' What did you pay that man to say that?
The man leaned vambraced forearms on the battlement, the scabbard of his longsword scraping against the stones.
As at a feast each guest leaned on his left elbow so as to leave his right arm at liberty, and as two or more lay on the same couch, the head of one man was near the breast of the man who lay behind, and he was therefore said " to lie in the bosom " of the other.
By this time, the band's aesthetics has leaned more towards glam metal ( notably in the power ballad " The Bull ", about a man who was cheated on by his girlfriend ) while generally retaining its traditional metal sound.
Dobryansky and his group, unaware of the realities of living in the Russian Empire, leaned to its official doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality ; Dobryansky, a man of wealth and pedigree, even imitated the lifestyle of a Russian landlord in minute details ; two of his sons joined Imperial Russian service.

man and against
against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
The man was leaning against the rock.
At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.
Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.
A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.
I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades.
`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.
The man wheezed weakly, his fetid breath beating softly against Watson's neck.
In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.
The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.
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.
Ambushes are laid by those who doubt themselves, as any man may against a tiger.
Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.
There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.
`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.

man and tree
`` Wherefore also He ( God ) drove him ( man ) out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, ( and did not desire ) that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable.
Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).
At the bottom of the tree, a tiny figure of a seated man, crossed legged, holds a knife and axe, declaring his status in society / occupation.
The city ’ s lush tree canopy, which filters out pollutants and cools sidewalks and buildings, has increasingly been under assault from man and nature due to heavy rains, drought, aged forests, new pests, and urban construction.
They comprise one category of substance ( ousiae ) existing independently ( man, tree ) and nine categories of accidents, which can only exist in something else ( time, place ).
What makes an individual substance – a man, a tree, a planet – real is a distinct act, a " to be ", which actuates its unity.
alt = A man on a donkey walks past a palm tree, with a mosque and market behind him.
The first man and woman break God's command and eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, and God expels them from the garden to prevent them from eating of a second tree, the Tree of Life, which would give them god-like immortality as well as god-like wisdom ; a cherub and a flaming sword at the gate bars their return.
The trees are so big and tall that a single tree is enough to make a mast of a first rate man of war.
The negotiations themselves are seen through the memory of three who were there: a warrior who could hear the debates but not see it from his hiding place in the floor of the house, a young boy who could see the action but not hear it from his perch in the tree outside, and the boy as an old man recalling that without " Someone In a Tree ", a silent watcher, history may have been incomplete.
Zeus declared that the ash tree would never hold fire, in effect denying the benefit of fire to man.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Quoting Euanthes, he mentions a man who hung his clothes on an ash tree and swam across an Arcadian lake, transforming him into a wolf.
: on that tree of which no man knows
Traditionally а young man of the family was sent dressed in his best clothes to cut down an oak, elm, or pear tree.
The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").
Yoritomo, after the defeat and almost complete extermination of his family at the hands of the Taira clan, managed in the space of a few years to go from being a fugitive hiding from his enemies inside a tree trunk to being the most powerful man in the land.
For example, 休 " rest " is composed of the characters for " man " ( 人 ) and " tree " ( 木 ), with the intended idea of someone leaning against a tree, i. e. resting.

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