Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

There was a man's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

Brains and beauty, high position in both the social and intellectual worlds, athlete, fabled lover -- if ever the world was any man's oyster it was his.

The man's voice was a sweet, patient whisper.

He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.

He was always well groomed and well tailored, and he had that rich man's look which was authentic enough and came from two good prep schools and a proper university.

He also said that the salary, in terms of going rates in the field, was `` modest '' in terms of the man's responsibility.

It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

To live correctly in an interdependent moral and material universe of living and dead was decisive for man's fate.

He was then in man's hands.

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.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

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

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

He was of unsettled mind as to whether he should go abroad when the Gantry galleys were finished.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.