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Example sentences for "man can"

  • No person with the upright form of man can be allowed, without violation of all decency, to switch out from his tongue the perpetual stench of offensive personality.

  • I say also to that Senator, and I wish him to bear it in mind, that no person with the upright form of man can be allowed--" He hesitated in doubt whether to proceed.

  • Douglas' argument about 'perfect social and political equality with the negro' is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

  • You have only forgotten one thing, Sauvresy; that a man can die.

  • A man can live in ease anywhere on eight hundred thousand francs.

  • The thing we called "bits of paper with traces of black ink," is the purest embodiment a Thought of man can have.

  • It should stand rather, No man can be a Grand-Monarque to his valet-de-chambre.

  • Wis 15:16 For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

  • Sir 16:21 It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

  • Bickley will tell you the same, although as yet he does not believe that the mind of man can stretch so far.

  • And believe, I suppose, that a man can live a thousand years, whereas we know well that he cannot live more than about a hundred.

  • Probably it was so decreed since is it not written that no man can live to himself alone, or lose himself in watching and nurturing the growth of his own soul?

  • But, though no man can draw a stroke between the confines of day and night, yet light and darkness are, upon the whole, tolerably distinguishable.

  • No man can be a friend to a tempered monarchy who bears a decided hatred to monarchy itself.

  • An your highness were to hang me," he said, "a man can but do his best.

  • A man can do but his best," answered Hubert; "but my grandsire drew a good long bow at Hastings, and I trust not to dishonour his memory.

  • I will do my best, as Hubert says," answered Locksley; "no man can do more.

  • Guatemala, I take it, is not the cheapest country in the world in which a man can live.

  • A man can't always remember that he isn't with another man.

  • How such a man can be useful to any government I can't conceive.

  • It is one of the millenniums which the mind of man can conceive, and seems to be that which the Conservative mind does conceive.

  • Now a man can hardly be thoroughly useful unless he knows his fellow-men, and how is he to know them if he shuts himself up?

  • You don't mean to say that no man can love a woman unless he is a fool?

  • Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others.

  • No man can be stark naught at once.

  • It has been long agreed that there is no way in which a man can accomplish so much labor with his muscles as in rowing.

  • It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two.

  • Now if a man can only be allowed to stand on a dais, or raised platform, and look down on his neighbor who is exerting his talent for him, oh, it is all right!

  • When a man can READ, his paroxysm of feeling is passing.

  • A man can shake it so that the movement shall be shown in a vessel of water nearly seventy feet below the summit, and higher up the vibration is like that of an earthquake.

  • A man can't very well be ostentatious of what nobody believes in.

  • Certainly a man can only be cosmopolitan up to a certain point.

  • I say, the most ungentlemanly trick a man can be guilty of is to come among the members of his profession with innovations which are a libel on their time-honored procedure.

  • There are certain things which a man can only go through once in his life; and he must know some time or other that the best is over with him.

  • She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before--a fountain of friendship towards men--a man can make a friend of her.

  • Suppose one man should die quietly, another should die suddenly, and a third should die under great consternation of spirit; no man can Judge of their eternall condition by the manner of any of these kinds of deaths.

  • With us a man can do anything decent and no one thinks the less of him.

  • Surely in this country a man can live an honest life and prosper.

  • And allowing the inward feeling, shame, a man can as little doubt whether it was given him to prevent his doing shameful actions as he can doubt whether his eyes were given him to guide his steps.

  • A man can as little doubt whether his eyes were given him to see with as he can doubt of the truth of the science of optics, deduced from ocular experiments.

  • And Ma says "it looks like a man can't hold public office and be honest.

  • A man can't hold public office and be honest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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