The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.

The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

`` Another young man, my dear??

Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

`` Husky young man '', he said with mock distaste.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;

Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.

That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.

What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

This view changed drastically in the 18th century, when critics regarded Hamlet as a hero — a pure, brilliant young man thrust into unfortunate circumstances.

A brilliant performance of young left back Royston Drenthe at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship had investors flocking to the new investment schemes Feyenoord had set up.

The concept of the brilliant young Vulcan scientist, Xon, almost survived into a later movie.

" He decides to create a starring role for Vicky in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, the music for which is to be written by Julian Craster ( Marius Goring ) a brilliant young composer engaged as orchestral coach the same day that Vicky was brought into the company.

During that time he met in 1818, the young and brilliant Peruvian student of the Royal Mining School of Paris, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.

On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, " I wish I'd said that ", to which Whistler riposted, " You will, Oscar, you will!

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

On the French political scene, he appeared as a young brilliant politician, and a preeminent expert in economic issues.

He was called " The Pride and Sorrow of Chess " because he had a brief and brilliant chess career, but then retired from the game while still young.

Taken from Richards, the son is raised on an army base where he appears to be a well-adjusted, physically superior, and tactically brilliant young man who greatly resembles his father.

Most of the clever young men of the brilliant generation of 1830 passed under his influence ; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his frank appreciation of the beauties of English, German, Italian, and Spanish poetry, he did not decry the classics — either the classics proper of Greece and Rome or the so-called classics of France.

* Sophie's Choice ( 1979 ), a story " told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn ".

Boult wrote, " a brilliant group of young and inexperienced players came to sit behind the well-known old stagers.

Already as a young man, he gained a reputation as a brilliant Torah scholar.

One of Eliade's earliest fiction writings, the controversial first-person narrative Isabel şi apele diavolului, focused on the figure of a young and brilliant academic, whose self-declared fear is that of " being common ".

As observed by Leamas, Fiedler seems content to live in Mundt's shadow, but is relatively young and brilliant.

" Adolph Zukor, chairman of Paramount, stated, " Irving Thalberg was the most brilliant young man in the motion picture business.

Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable ( but not brilliant ) academic who has combined research with their honeymoon.

He could supplement his pure serve-and-volley game with brilliant athleticism at the net, which included the diving volley that was considered a trademark of the young German, and which endeared him to his fans.

Teresa Stolz went on to a brilliant career, Waldmann retired very young in 1875, and the male singers appear to have faded into obscurity.

In Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England ( 1844: translated as The Condition of the Working Class in England ), Friedrich Engels wrote sarcastically of Young England ( a ginger-group of young aristocrats hostile to the new industrial order ) that they hoped to restore " the old ' merry England ' with its brilliant features and its romantic feudalism.

A female acquaintance at Christ Church described Heseltine as " probably about 22 ( he was 19 ) but he appears to be years older ... 6 feet high, absolutely fit ... brilliant blue eyes ... and the curved lips and highhead carriage of a young Greek God ".