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man and leaned
The man leaned against a tree and wiped a sleeve across his face.
* 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 frail
Watson supported the man to the edge of the bank and passed the frail figure over the bow of the nearest skiff.
J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.
Captain America has no superhuman powers, although as a result of the Super-Soldier Serum and " Vita-Ray " treatment, he is transformed from a frail young man into a " perfect " specimen of human development and conditioning.
Meanwhile, MacLeod has physically aged into a frail old manhis mortality part of winning the Prize – and expects that he will eventually die of natural causes.
A piece of frail tenderness manages to cloak itself inside of her, even after having been demonized by Crosby, describing " a pathetic hint of frailty in a wonderful glowing man.
The character of Lear in the nineteenth century was often that of a frail old man from the opening scene, but Lears of the twentieth century often began the play as strong men displaying regal authority, including John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Donald Sinden.
Life was frail and unsubstantial, and man was like a shadow in a dream.
A frail old man could become so completely restored that he could resume " all manly exercises … take a new wife and beget more children.
The Guardian, liberal in its political outlook, remarked that Home " does not look like the man to impart force and purpose to his Cabinet and the country " and suggested that he seemed too frail politically to be even a stop-gap.
Notable among the Companions who were killed by Muawiyah's forces was Ammar bin Yasir, a frail old man of 95 at the time of his murder.
He was not above medium height, somewhat slight of figure and seemingly frail in physique, though this frailty was in appearance only as he was a man of tremendous, tireless energy.
In 1929, by this time an elderly man in frail health, he was transferred to Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he died on September 29, 1932.
When he considers the time ripe, he attempts to kill Barquentine by fire, but botches the attempt, underestimating the seemingly frail and disabled old man.
* Hard his lot and frail his being, like a rose leaf, yet no form of reality is so powerful, so inspiring, and so beautiful as the spirit of man.
By this time, however, Yu was already a frail old man with a headful of white hair.
The pope is now a frail old man, who lives in obscurity under a moderate form of house arrest, ignored by his neighbors and forbidden to keep any religious items.
For this the Egyptian population venerated him from that day on as a holy man and miracle worker, whose life had been protected by the Lord through a frail mat.
Lightray makes several brief, non speaking appearances in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory series, where his human form is a frail man on crutches.
His enemy, Spiridon, has returned from prison a bitter and frail man, and Alexei feels only pity.
A frail old man, he usually sends Kurt and Max into dangerous situations, but is repeatedly forced to go to their rescue himself.
He appeared to be a frail old man, despite the eventual revelation that he was actually the youngest of the Doctor's incarnations, and yet was possessed of unexpected reserves of strength and will.
* General Glory was mystically endowed with enhanced strength and durability, but only in his " General Glory " persona, otherwise he was a frail 80 year old man.
However, Silvermane's organic body parts are those of a frail 80 year old man, and hence quite vulnerable.
He was released from hospital soon before his death, but still aged 58, was a very frail man who moved very tentatively.

man and body
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 man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.
In news items a man is less often shot in the body or head than in the suburbs.
The body was that of a well-developed, somewhat debilitated white man weighing 108 lb..
Pimen is an old man, weak in body -- his voice rarely rises to a full forte -- but firm and clear of mind.
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
A man has 32 souls, one for each part of the body.
Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.
`` Go back to that double-married man of yours who so parades his fine body among the young women.
The sculptors had a clear idea of what a young man is, and embodied the archaic smile of good manners, the firm and springy step, the balance of the body, dignity, and youthful happiness.
Here, the lord Krishna says that just as a man discards his old clothes and wears new ones ; similarly the soul discards the old body and takes on a new one.
* 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.
Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.
Alexander contends that the undeveloped reason in man is material ( nous hulikos ) and inseparable from the body.
These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).
" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.
" It was considered a great triumph among the Marquesans to eat the body of a dead man.
The 1972 science fiction novel Cyborg, by Martin Caidin, told the story of a man whose damaged body parts are replaced by mechanical devices (" bionics ").

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