The result of this litigation was that the old man was reduced to extreme poverty, and was forced to sell his paternal house.
Would it be just to charge us with defending intoxication because we might say that such a man was grossly in the wrong?
In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers.
It was necessary; my man was going to fire a pistol at me; but you--how did you get rid of yours?
He was not mistaken; as he entered his bedroom a man was getting in by the window.
A few days later, by a regrettable accident, a man was killed; it was felt at once the thing had gone too far, and the quarrel was instantly patched up.
Games of cards were continually played, with shells for counters; their course was much marred by cheating; and the end of a round (above all if a man was of the party) resolved itself into a scrimmage for the counters.
A man was seated in the arm-chair, and bending over the table.
A man was, in truth, leaning on the balustrade which surmounted the northern tower, looking on the Grève.
A man was dragging a white thing, from which hung something black, along the pavement.
He did not care much for money in itself, but he luxuriated in the lavish use of it, and he was as generous with it as ever a man was.
His main question was whether at his age of sixty years a man was justified in seeking to recall a public of the past, or to create a new public in the present.
If ever a man was happy to leave Boston, That man is Simon Kempthorn of the Swallow!
The people knew not What manner of man was passing by their doors, Until he passed no more; but in his vision He saw the torments and beatitudes Of souls condemned or pardoned, and hath left Behind him this sublime Apocalypse.
And when they swore unto him, that they knew not where the man was whom he sought, he stretched out his hand to the temple, 14:33.
And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?
The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her.
And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
What would you feel, Mrs Hurtle, if a man was to come and say it all out of another man's mouth?
Nor did it occur to them to grudge Melmotte his more noble pickings, for they knew how great a man was Melmotte.
In 1882 a man wasadmitted to Guy's Hospital, London, after he had taken half of a sixpenny pot of phosphorous paste in whiskey, and was subsequently discharged completely recovered.
The day after the battle the man was sent to the general hospital at Staunton, Va.
While working at some wood-cutting a man was struck on a heavy boot by a snake, which he killed with an axe.
A man was spoken of in both France and Germany a who passed for many years as a female.
Forestus describes a case in which a man was rescued by provoking vomiting with vinegar, pepper, and mustard seed.
Suppose now a man was unconscious of any ability to do the thing required of him?
I explained all the devices I had used in firing; but told him that why the man was cut in halves, neither he nor I could know.
The King replied that if a man was so scrupulous about the termination of a work, he would never begin anything at all; these words he uttered with a certain look, which implied that such enterprises were not for folk of little spirit.
He wished besides to pay his valiant captain this compliment; and he loved him all the more for having drawn him from a very humble place, and for the reason that so excellent a man was a creature of his own.
On one of the hunts when I was out a man was thrown, dragged by one stirrup, and killed.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
But in those days a man was a man, and scarce enough on the Wilderness Trail in that year of '77.
I hear of those remarkable things you have done--even in New York the other day a man was asking me if I knew Mr. Paret, and spoke of you as one of the coming men.
By Jove, I don't know that a man was ever so circumstanced," he said.
If ever a man was tired of a woman, Lord Dumbello is tired of her.
How that devil Miriam's eyes flashed as she told me that a man was betraying me.
She heard that a man was approaching, and well knew that one only trod with such a step.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "man was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
