Because I am bound, in the harmless character of a single man, to relieve my married connections of all their own troubles.
When morning broke and the assailants had retired, the monastery was all stuck full of arrows, and the dead bodies of 300 Moors were seen around its walls, while the defenders had not lost a single man.
By the banks of the Tiber the city of Romulus became the house of a single man: by the shores of the Hadriatic the house of a single man became a city.
The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free; but on this broad continent not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours.
The future of Samoa should lie thus in the hands of a single man, on whom the eyes of Europe are already fixed.
The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours.
It was only in the border earldoms and in Cornwall that he allowed anything at all near to the lordship of a whole shire to be put in the hands of a single man.
In itself, the harrying of Northumberland, the very invasion of England, with all the bloodshed that they caused, might be deemed blacker crimes than the unjust death of a single man.
That the history of England for the last eight hundred years has been what it has been has largely come of the personal character of a single man.
We took count and found that up to this moment we had not lost a single man, one only having been slightly wounded by a thrown spear.
At last from out of their array rode a single man, in whom I recognized one of the envoys who had met us in the morning, carrying in his hand a white flag as he had done before.
The first was that if I did so my pistol would be empty, or even if I shot one horse and retained a barrel loaded, with it I could only kill a single man, leaving myself defenceless against the knife of the other.
But this act of justice, or revenge, was inflicted on a foreign enemy in the heat of victory, and at the command of a single man.
They cannot put intelligence and justice into the head of a single man.
A single man, often heard, becomes wearisome and unprofitable, for "No man can feed us always.
I do not know a single man, eminent in any sect, who is also eminent in his opposition to slavery.
Marie Antoinette, though fully aware of the desirableness of having a single man of ability and firmness at the head of the administration, was for a moment surprised out of her habitual courtesy.
The funds rose; loans to any amount were freely offered to the Treasury; the national credit revived; as if the solvency or insolvency of the nation depended on a single man, and him a foreigner.
I think that it will be best to place a single man at the head of affairs, as M.
The council of ministers, in which there was not a single man of force except Talleyrand, received the conclusions from time to time, and elaborated the details.
In the face of national feeling, before the march of national regeneration, a single man, world-conqueror though he may have been during a period of national disorganization, is an object of microscopic size.
The opponents to the establishment of an academy in this country may urge, and find Bruyère on their side, that no corporate body generates a single man of genius.
We make one man, and such a compound man may probably produce what no single man can.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
