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man and who
I'll shoot the first man who doesn't ''.
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.
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.
You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.
`` You know who the other man was ''??
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.
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.
The man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
And Keith's record of kills made him a man to listen to -- a man paradoxically, who might even survive.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
The white girl with the penetrating green eyes sipped the lemonade handed to her by a handsome man of about 30, who had coppery skin and beetling eyebrows.
From the man who had leaped in from the high bank outside, as the train had slowed on the grade.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.
So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.
Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
An existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as `` esse '', as existence without substance.
A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

man and refused
Those who refused to kill their fellow man died.
Norris refused to have anything to do with the man whom he blamed for shaming his mother.
Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career.
According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.
But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.
Although the Separatists supported civil government, the group refused to make a physical oath in its support, " for according to the Gospel not oath is allowed him who gives evidence of a righteous life as an upright man.
He introduces the word " freelance ": " I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he refused them ... thanks to the bustling times, a man of action will always find employment.
The popular stories says that Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman III had executed a young man from León who was held as a hostage, because he had refused his advances during the Reconquista.
To the exasperation of his friends, Rousseau turned down the great honor, bringing him notoriety as " the man who had refused a king's pension.
Because the terminology is ambiguous (" el " in Yisra ` el ) and inconsistent, and because this being refused to reveal his name, there are varying views as to whether he was a man, an angel, or God.
After four awkward meetings with his biological father, the man refused further contact.
" Nor was he by nature libidinous: when an employee of his friend Niccolò Quaratesi offered his son as apprentice, suggesting that he would be good even in bed, Michelangelo refused indignantly, suggesting Quaratesi fire the man.
When an executioner was sent to strangle him at Yedikule, Constantinople, Osman II refused to give in and started fighting the man and was only subdued when he was hit on his back with the rear end of an axe by one of his imprisoners.
According to his " Secretum ", she refused him for the very proper reason that she was already married to another man.
In writing of one miracle associated with Oswald, Bede gives some indication of how Oswald was regarded in conquered lands: years later, when his niece Osthryth moved his bones to Bardney Abbey in Lindsey, its inmates initially refused to accept them, " though they knew him to be a holy man ", because " he was originally of another province, and had reigned over them as a foreign king ", and thus " they retained their ancient aversion to him, even after death ".
The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.
The man refused, and fired a shot.
Recalling her father's disdain for Anne of Cleves, Elizabeth also refused to enter into a foreign match with a man that she had never seen before, so that also eliminated a large number of suitors.
In the epic poem Beowulf, at lines 456-472, Hroðgar recalls the story of how Ecgþeow ( Beowulf's father ) once came to him for help, for he had slain Heaðolaf, a man from another tribe called the Wulfings, and either couldn't pay the wergild or they refused to accept it.
In Carthage the followers of Felicissimus elected Fortunatus as bishop in opposition to Cyprian, while in Rome the followers of the Roman presbyter Novatian, who also refused absolution to all the lapsed, elected their man as bishop of Rome, in opposition to Cornelius.
Many in the government felt that Townsend would be an unsuitable husband for the Queen's 22-year-old sister, and the Church of England refused to countenance the marriage to a divorced man.
" Humanism does not consist in saying: ‘ No animal could have done what I have done ,’ but in declaring: ‘ We have refused what the beast within us willed to do, and we seek to reclaim man wherever we find that which crushes him .’" The Voices of Silence
Furious, President Jackson threatened to lead an army to South Carolina and hang any man who refused to obey the law.
Archbishop Thomas Becket refused to allow William to marry the Countess of Surrey and the young man fled to Matilda's court at Rouen.
Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves ; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair.

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