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Example sentences for "every man"

  • There comes a time in every man's life when it grows dark, Davy, and then the cowards are afraid.

  • There is a story in every man's life, like the kernel in the shell of a hickory nut.

  • Uneasiness was written on every man's face, and the talk went haltingly.

  • That star which shines once in the life of every man, which shone for Job and Iris, the most unfortunate of the Jews and the poorest of the Greeks, is come at last to shine on me.

  • D'Artagnan, to every man he struck at, that is to say, to every man that fell.

  • For mother would have no stint in the matter, but had assembled at our house, immediately upon knowledge of what was to be about London, every man known to be a good stitcher upon our side of Exmoor.

  • Therefore we listened to rumours gladly, and shook our heads with gravity, and predicted, every man something, but scarce any two the same.

  • For he was a man of such strict honesty, and due parish feeling, that he knew it to be every man's own business to defend himself and his goods; unless he belonged to our parish, and then we must look after him.

  • I blessed myself for a stupid fool, in thinking to have pumped them; for by this time I might have known that, through your Western homeliness, every man in his own country is something more than a prophet.

  • Every man, even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves for animals.

  • Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us to say what there was in Police Officer Javert.

  • Every man wanted to know, not who was his neighbour, but who was to be his ruler; whose feet he was to kiss, and by whom his feet were to be ultimately beaten.

  • Every man, according to his station, was properly buried, and that in the usual way, except that he went to his grave in a more hurried pace than might have been adopted under ordinary circumstances.

  • Every man of us was at the entertainment, and Mrs. Belltott had more partners than she could dance with: though she danced all night, too.

  • But first into this wood, every man in his place.

  • Every man lying-to at his work, with a will that had all his heart and soul in it.

  • Every man was to keep up an appearance, meanwhile, of occupying himself in his usual way.

  • Every man answered to his name, of course, and was at his post.

  • The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion.

  • Every man put on this earth is put here for a purpose.

  • Every man should be delighted that women are vain.

  • Every man, to begin with, is born absolutely at the mercy of his ancestry.

  • Every man must be thankful that highly specialized brains are constantly at work piling up knowledge for him.

  • Every man insists on "buying" something to drink in his turn.

  • Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture.

  • If you let her go, every man of us has got to cut, and some of us will be caught sure.

  • Every man on that gang is strong and hilthy, paid all he earns, and treated with the courtesy of a gentleman!

  • Every man of the gang and of that locality knew that he was under the protection of McLean, who was a power, this had the effect of smoothing Freckles' path in many directions.

  • And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

  • And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

  • Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

  • Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place; and I was pleased with the dignity conferred by such a testimony of your regard.

  • Every man has a physical right to think as he pleases; for it cannot be discovered how he thinks.

  • Every man has a right to liberty of conscience, and with that the magistrate cannot interfere.

  • Every man, woman, and child born with five fingers on each hand was henceforward better qualified as a critic than any poet or scholar of time past.

  • He therefore makes his appeal to every man who is to-day working for the betterment of industrial, educational, and literary conditions in the South.

  • A hoarse murmur arose from the company; every man touched, first the hilt of his sword, and then the tip of his nose, with appalling significance.

  • The resolution was, of course, carried with loud acclamations, every man holding up both hands in favour of it, as he would in his enthusiasm have held up both legs also, if he could have conveniently accomplished it.

  • I tell you, if I had stood by, tamely and passively, I should have hated myself, and merited the contempt of every man in existence.

  • Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture should live.

  • Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain degree of advancement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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