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Example sentences for "man may"

  • But this kind of proof is of no value where truth is the aim; a man may often be sworn down by a multitude of false witnesses who have a great air of respectability.

  • A man may be a worthy person for me to receive a benefit from, but it will hurt him to give it.

  • What a man may say in a rage goes for nothing," answered the earl, sulkily rather than fiercely.

  • The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

  • Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

  • On his death-bed a man may say, 'My wife has never cost me a pang!

  • A man may be killed by tumbling over a curbstone or failing to see a gap.

  • A man may bow to an elderly man or person of official position.

  • A man may assist a woman in getting off a car.

  • If her clothing is torn, or she has met with some accident of which she is unaware, a man may, if he desires, politely raise his hat and call her attention to the fact.

  • A man may ask a married woman who has a family for permission to call.

  • Two thousand pounds a year a man may enjoy in Oceana, as much in Panopea, £500 in Marpesia; there be other plantations, and the commonwealth will have more.

  • If a man cuts my purse I may have him by the heels or by the neck for it; whereas a man may cut a woman's purse, and have her for his pains in fetters.

  • A man may as well say that it is unlawful for him who has made a fair and honest purchase to have tenants, as for a government that has made a just progress and enlargement of itself to have provinces.

  • These gave the suffrage of the commonwealth in two meetings; the prerogative at the first assembly, and the jure vocatoe at a second.

  • Man may be practically too free; this is frequently the case with those who have been nurtured in the lap of opulence and luxury.

  • I suppose a man may be allowed to speak to his own guests.

  • She cannot throw it from her as a man may do amidst the affairs of the world.

  • It would have taken him long to explain to her, even had he been able, that a man may break a promise and yet not tell a lie.

  • Such a man may be ruined at any time; but there was no doubt that to anyone marrying his daughter during the present season of his outrageous prosperity he could give a very large fortune indeed.

  • Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

  • But in his essay, How a Man may Distinguish a Flatterer from a Friend, he calls him Chriso.

  • Of course, it can be carried to an excess; and a man may become a mere book-eater, as a man may become an opium-eater.

  • It ought to be a ticket of admission, which a man may use or not as he likes, not a legal summons.

  • All that the hands of a man may minister, all that the eyes of each are swift to see, the ears to hear, and the feet to compass, he with his helpful arts will not fall short of.

  • Where then is the difficulty of supposing that a man may be temperate to-day, and to-morrow the reverse; or that he who once has had it in his power to act virtuously may not quite lose that power?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for although; man had; man like; man may; man must; manner aforesaid; many accounts; many another; many cases; many colours; many countries; many fields; many forms; many knights; many lands; many leagues; many letters; many men; many months; many more; many respects; many species; many subjects; many ways; many wounded; prodigious number