The proboscis of the male is about a foot long when the creature is at rest, but elongates under excitement.
The male is black, head and back white, with a black crown.
In English law it is a felony punishable by penal servitude for not more than fourteen years, or by imprisonment; and in the case of a male under the age of sixteen, by whipping in addition to the imprisonment.
The female wore a boy's jacket turned outside in, the male a woman's bonnet and a shawl, and to make his disguise the more impenetrable he carried a poker in his right hand.
The male stranger did so at once, but the female said, rather anxiously: "You are sure as you don't know who we is?
A male fairy roared back from some invisible place, "He has gone yont to Petey's wi' the dambrod.
Neptune and Amphitrite in due time became the happy parents of several children, among whom the most celebrated is Triton, whose body was half man and half fish, and who gave his name to all his male descendants.
The lesser divinities of the sea were almost as numerous as those of the land, and included the lovely Oceanides and Nereides, together with their male companions the Tritons, who generally formed Neptune's regal train.
Male dancers have, I am glad to think, never been much esteemed in England; and Albert, though successful enough, produced nothing like the same impression in London which he was in the habit of causing in Paris.
The pit has long ceased to be the resort of ladies of fashion, and, latterly, by the innovations introduced, is no longer agreeable to the former male frequenters of it.
It has struck me," an observing male visitor once remarked, "that there are a good many women in Willowfield, and that altogether it has a feminine tone.
There were a number of more or less awkward and raw-boned young male creatures whose lives were spent chiefly in cornfields and potato patches.
And there joined in chorus with these, two male voices, evidently well trained, and of much compass.
Since her marriage day she had been developing a continually increasing distaste for everything masculine--seeing in every male creature a possible replica of her husband.
The first male who, so to speak, got within reach of her, took her by the scruff of the neck, and made her keep step with him.
That little hand, with its little feminine clutch, trembling on his arm, raised a certain male compassion for her piteous condition; and he bestowed a few cold, sad words of encouragement on her.
The dress of the male prisoners consisted of a plain under-shirt, an upper garment falling below the knees, divided in the front and buttoned at the neck, and laced greaves.
In the ruins of Kouyunjik there is nothing, as far as I am aware, to mark the distinction between the male and female apartments.
Male and female captives had been taken and heads cut off; the victorious warriors according to custom, and probably to claim a reward,[21] bringing them to the registrars.
The menacing male is a spoiled baby, biting off his own nose.
There is more than one male who would be willing to remedy that defect, I'm thinking," chuckled Suzanne wickedly.
Also I think everybody--male and female--ought to know how.
What is the male end of the bargain, according to the latest approved feministic standards?
I hate the lordly male attitude you assume at times.
Briefly, for the male head of the family, as guardian, to leave them to starve, while he made merry over their poor pittances of pensions granted to them by Government in consideration of their race, or its good services.
Above the rattle of the rain came the thump--thump of the piano, and a half-dozen male voices.
Once, a recreant housemaid presenting the establishment with a healthy male infant, Jane was sent to the country for a month, and was only brought back when the house had been fumigated throughout.
Sometimes, male and female figures are placed together in an embracing posture.
During temple or marriage processions, two huge human figures, male and female, made of bamboo wicker-work, are carried in front for the same purpose.
In the Godavari district, a sorcerer known as the Ejjugadu (male physician) is believed, out of spite or in return for payment, to kill another by invoking the gods.
A bad feature of the case, which was reckoned against the prisoner, was that he deferred the sacrifice until a second son was born, so that, in any case, he was not left without male issue.
According to another account, [332] "some male member of the family of the deceased throws coloured rice over the corpse as it lies on the bed, pronouncing as he does so the names of all the known sorcerers who live in the neighbourhood.
The Holodia section of the Tellis will not rear male calves, and do not castrate their bulls.
It may be noted that, in the Canarese country, a custom obtains among the Bedars and some other castes, under which a family which has no male issue must dedicate one of its daughters as a Basavi.
The apparatus included the top of the skull of a first-born male child inscribed with Tamil characters.
Mr Cain writes further [261] that a langur monkey is now substituted for the human victim under the name of erukomma potu or male with small breasts, in the hope of persuading the goddess that she is receiving a human sacrifice.
This is a signal for the whole village, and every household sends out a male member, duly purified by a bath and copiously smeared with sacred ashes, to the fields, to gather some ears of paddy.
Carved wooden figurines, male and female, represented in a state of nudity, are also manufactured at Tirupati, and sold to Hindus.
Male and female He made 'em, after their kind; and it's only reasonable that they've been after their kind ever since.
After those heroes were seated, well-dressed servants male and female, and skilful cooks brought excellent and costly viands worthy of kings on gold and silver plates.
Having bowed down to Narayana and Nara, the most exalted male being, and also to the goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be uttered.
Sikhandini was so transformed into a male by Yaksha named Sthuna from the desire of doing her good.
And it resounded with the notes of the male Kokila and of the shrill cicala.
And from Drupada was born a daughter Sikhandin who was afterwards transformed into a male child.
Those who have listened to his history can never bear to listen to others, as, indeed, they who have listened to the sweet voice of the male Kokila can never hear the dissonance of the crow's cawing.
All my ancestors (one after another) had each a male child.
That male person, who being solicited by a woman in her season doth not grant her wishes, is called, O Brahmana, by those conversant with the Vedas, a slayer of the embryo.
From the stomach of that fish came out a male and a female child of human form.
And he was so called because he had performed a sacrifice at which the fat of an Ayuta (ten thousands) of male beings was required.
Male sexual pleasure must not be interfered with, male lust may be indulged in to any extent that pleasure demands, but woman must take the entire responsibility, that male indulgence be not disturbed by any inconvenient claims from paternity.
The horns proved of less advantage to the females than to the males; they seem a part of the plus or overflow of the male principle, like the beard in man--the badge of masculinity.
And I do assure you, Miss Erema, my bitterest thought was of your coming, though unknown whether male or female, but both most inconvenient then, with things in such a state of things.
No other male in Bayport could have worn that tie and not looked foolish, yet Mr. Phillips did not look foolish, far from it.
The captain did not know every one in Bayport, but he had at least a recognizing acquaintance with most of the males, and this particular male was not one of them.
He pondered and puzzled over it the greater part of the night and then reached the conclusion which the male usually reaches under such circumstances, namely, that he had better ask her pardon.
Did the lady wish him to infer that it was the Fair Harbor custom to consider all male strangers tramps until they were proven innocent?
Across that Ocean, at a distance incomputable by the human intellect, is the male half of our system.
Decidedly feminine, we should say; overflowing with observations on the sex that look like self-revelations, and with sketches of the male animal which are inexpressibly grotesque when they are not weak.
It was only in private theatricals that ladies donned the male costume a century ago, and they were always draped with the strictest propriety.
Mr. Darwin thinks the ardour of the male destroys his discrimination.
William Fitton, his next male kinsman, the father of Alexander Fitton, the Irish Lord Chancellor.
Presently came that strange and unexampled event by which the last Emperor of the legitimate male stock of the Great Charles was deposed by the common consent of all his dominions.
Mrs. Best did bring her a letter, but it was not to cancel the appointment, only to say he was not surprised at her horror of the male sex, but that she must beware of false generalisations.
What if Bob were the corresponding male companion!
Afterwards Eileen wondered who Bob was, but at the moment she could think of nothing but the farcical complications arising from the idea of Mrs. Maper's providing Mr. Maper with a male companion secretly to improve his manners.
The dove was also a male; but its male companions, with instinct tainted by domestication, were ignorant alike of its sex and different species.
When the male is feeding he frequently pauses to utter a succession of loud, percussive, and somewhat jarring cries; these he utters in a leisurely manner, and immediately after goes on feeding.
Curtis discovered that only the female mosquito bites or sucks blood, the male being without tongue or mandibles; and he asks, What, then, does the male feed on?
Azara kept a young male for four months, which spent its whole time playing with the slaves.
A full-sized male measures to the root of the tail twenty-two inches, and weighs from fourteen to fifteen pounds; the female is nineteen inches in length, and her greatest weight nine pounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "male" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bull; gentleman; gentlemanly; him; male; man; manly; mannish; masculine; virile
