He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

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

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

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

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

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.

The west front, with the great Wheathampstead window, was cracked and leaning, and Grimthorpe, never more than an amateur architect, designed the new front himself — attacked as dense, misproportioned and unsympathetic: " His impoverishment as a designer ... evident "; " this man, so practical and ingenious, was utterly devoid of taste ... his great qualities were marred by arrogance ... and a lack of historic sense ".

Andrew Kettle, Parnell's right hand man, who shared a lot of his opinions, wrote of his own views, " I confess that I felt 1885, and still feel, a greater leaning towards the British Tory party than I ever could have towards the so-called Liberals.

Two adults and two girls in Victorian dress stand on the track beside the carriage, with a man leaning against the locomotive and another man on the footplate.

Among the eight immortals, Li Tieh-Kuai was one of the more popular, and was depicted as a man leaning on crutch and holding a gourd.

A fourth man is sitting at the head of the table on the right, leaning back, his left leg folded over his right.

Working with a sense of urgency and expedience, to create the model the larger statue would be based on the students reworked an academic exercise built to demonstrate the effect of the distribution of weight on a piece: " a half-meter high clay sculpture of a man grasping a pole with two raised hands and leaning his weight on it.

alt = A video game screenshot of a man leaning on the floor while holding a gun in each hand and firing them at another man down a hallway.

alt = A man leaning on a chair.

alt = Line-drawing of the man with thistledown hair leaning over a woman lying in a bed with his hands upraised.

In " Christmas on Bear Mountain ", Scrooge was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old man, visibly leaning on his cane.

His 1967 painting " Pacific ", showing a man leaning against an open door looking out to sea while a Browning Hi-Power pistol rests on a table in the foreground, inspired one of the definitive scenes in the 1995 film Heat with actor Robert De Niro.

alt = An eighteenth century painting shows a middle aged man dressed in red clothing leaning on two books that are resting on a table, with a Roman-style column in the background

alt = A bronze statue of a man with a large beard, wearing a long coat, leaning on a walking stick, and holding some papers

alt = Informal outdoor portrait of dark-haired moustachioed man in suit leaning on fence, flanked by two dark-haired women

alt = Three-quarter portrait of moustachioed man in flying suit with a belt of machine-gun ammunition slung over his shoulders, leaning against an aeroplane

Most of the time he is seen simply leaning against a rock reading a novel, and acts as sort of a straight man for the other more outgoing characters.

The political leaning of the newspaper might traditionally be viewed as social-liberal ( as it is an offspring of Politiken ), but it would probably be more accurate to say that the newspaper considers itself in opposition to anyone in a position of power ( a watchdog ), and the defender of the ordinary man.

alt = A man leaning towards the left

After they were combined, Ra was seen as the whole sun and Atum came to be seen as the sun when it sets in the west ( depicted as an old man leaning on his staff ), while Khepri was seen as the sun when it was rising.

Skanda is described as a young man fully clad in the armor and headgear of a Chinese general, and is usually leaning on a vajra staff.

Writer George Plimpton described Ali's stance as like " a man leaning out his window trying to see something on his roof.