Wellington's watchword, like Washington's, was duty; and no man could be more loyal to it than he was.
And yet, when the crust of his shyness was broken, no man could be more cordial and genial than Hawthorne.
No man could be more sensible of the practical importance of industry than Sir Walter Scott, who was himself one of the most laborious and indefatigable of men.
As fair a prospect, on all sides, as man could desire.
Whatever he said, and whatever he did, I knew he was going as straight as man could go to his own death by my hands.
A man could also be awarded land which had escheated to the King.
A man could kill in defense of his own life, the life of his kinsmen, his lord, or a man whose lord he was.
Formerly, a man could ascend to the throne through his female ancestry as well.
He said he never gambled, but still was satisfied that the meddling with cards in any way was immoral and injurious, and no man could be wholly pure and blemishless without eschewing them.
If I was a shilling a week less useful in ten years' time, this impostor would give me a shilling a week less; if as useful a man could be got at sixpence cheaper, he would be taken in my place at sixpence cheaper.
He looked as closely at the Chief Butler as such a man could be looked at, and yet he did not recall that he had ever seen him elsewhere.
I wondered if this man who sought to kill my mother was the same as he of whom my father had spoken as 'the chief of the devils,' but I only answered that no man could wish to kill one so good and beautiful.
It was very dark and a fine rain fell, so that a man could see no further before his eyes than he can at evening through a Norfolk roke in autumn.
Then I left her for a while, marvelling at the great love which she had given me, and wondering also if there was any truth in her words, and if the heart of man could be so ungrateful and so vile.
He said, 'no honest man could be a Deist; for no man could be so after a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity.
Johnson observed, that abilities might be employed in a narrow sphere, as in getting money, which he said he believed no man could do, without vigorous parts, though concentrated to a point.
I remember one, Angel, who came to me to write for him a Preface or Dedication to a book upon short hand, and he professed to write as fast as a man could speak.
He could not comprehend how a man could be so depraved as to use the sacred protection and security of hospitality as a means for the commission of such a crime as that.
It is handsomely and neatly fitted up, but no man could handle it well in the turbulent currents that sweep down the Bosporus from the Black Sea, and few men could row it satisfactorily even in still water.
He was always persecuting the passengers with abstruse propositions framed in language that no man could understand, and they endured the exquisite torture a minute or two and then abandoned the field.
I had not supposed, before, that a man could look so much like a spider.
He said again, presently: "Why Dan, a man could go to sleep with this man shaving him.
Of course a man could be very fond of her," he said, "but a king ought to have married her.
I don't suppose a man could pay a woman a higher compliment than to say that his proposal was the result of some years of thought and study.
With our own eyes we saw them coming out, Major Hay as near to staggering as a man could be, the governor blushing red for shame of him.
And he told of a deep gorge between towering mountains where a great river cried angrily, of a black cave out of which a black stream ran, where a man could paddle a dugout for miles into the rock.
What we hoped ultimately to determine was what fraction of a horse-power a man was able to exert, that is, how many foot-pounds of work a man could do in a day.
Sir, I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit, as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
I mentioned Lord Monboddo's opinion, that if a man could get a work by heart, he might print it, as by such an act the mind is exercised.
He said, he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing, and not to another.
She would not know how long it took to break him utterly--if such a man could be broken.
And we'd make calculations how many a man could unload, if he could get next.
The first Reuben Vanderpoel could not spell, the second could, the third was as well educated as a man could be whose sole profession is money-making.
There was not much limit to the evidence a man could bring if he was experienced enough to be circumstantial, and knew whom he was dealing with.
I am sure you would confess that he has the most proper feelings; and as for expressing them no man coulddo it better.
The hardware-man could find it in his heart to be generous, to be generous and true to his love; but he could not be generous enough to father the seducer's child.
He felt, and acknowledged that no man couldhave a better wife.
A man could scarcely be a patrician who had not held a great office; nor could he often hold a great office unless he were a patrician.
And as we propose to treat of the arts in their culminating excellence chiefly,--to show what the Pagan intellect of man could accomplish, unaided by light from heaven, we turn to the great teacher of the last two thousand years.
And besides that, into the forest, and into the trench to the right of it that was being held by the British infantry there was falling such a cataract of fire that it was not possible to believe a man could live.
They added, however, that no man could say in those mountains what this day or the next might bring forth.
No man could command, as he did who had the least little doubt in his heart of eventual success.
The Hebrew boy inaugurated his patriotic mission by an act, by a victorious act, such as no man could deny.
The faces, which no man could count--whence were they?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "man could" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
