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Example sentences for "strong man"

  • He was a hale, strong man to look on, though he had seen some three-score winters; but his mien was sad, and his heart heavy.

  • Mord is a strong man, unwearied, and skilled in war, and Eric's arms grow faint and his strength sinks low.

  • It was said of him that he had never turned a poor man away unsuccoured, nor bowed his head before a strong man, nor drawn his sword without cause, nor refused peace to him who prayed it.

  • The priest is then carried back to the village on the shoulders of a strong man.

  • The poor neglected victim, forgotten in the turmoil of his wrongdoer's glory, had that last strength of a strong man--the strength to be silent and to forgive.

  • He would regain the place of his father; he would revive the traditions of his grandfather; the Christians should resume their ancient standing in the Isle of Man; the last of their race should be a strong man and a just one.

  • Either from the instinct of a gentleman, or the pride of a strong man, he continued to shower his favours upon Philip.

  • There are some things into which it is wisest not to pry, and one of them is the first agony of a strong man's grief.

  • Strong man as he was, he shook like a leaf before her.

  • As may be imagined, strong man though he was, by this time John was quite exhausted.

  • A strong man he was, and full of commanding courage, but neither so strong nor so mighty that she had need to keep as quiet in his presence as a kitchen maid before a king.

  • He reappeared in England changed and aged, but a strong man still, with a more settled air of strength of purpose than he had worn in his wild youth.

  • Happily he was a strong man by nature, with deep impassioned longings and profound convictions; and going on through life in his lonely, overcrowded way, he soon became absorbed in the entrancing egotism of devotion to a great cause.

  • Helena looked slightly annoyed as she replied quickly, 'He is a strong man.

  • He had become a strong man--strong with that peculiar combination of mental and moral force which reveals itself in masculine common sense.

  • And, like a strong man, he rejoiced in his strength, perhaps a little too unreservedly.

  • The creed of a strong man, expressed with absolute sincerity, is always as interesting as it is rare; and the presumption is that it contains truths which would require to be incorporated in a wider system.

  • To a strong man, I suppose, these things do not count so greatly, but I'm inclined to think what with us poor women our heart-life is everything.

  • He looked up as he seized the means of help, and saw at the upper window the square dark face of a strong man, who was clad in a flannel shirt and had a silver-mounted pipe in his mouth.

  • Hermione looked at him, curiously at first, then with a sort of admiration which she could not explain,--the admiration we all feel for a strong man who is very much in earnest.

  • He was a strong man, and in all his active life had never touched liquor nor tobacco.

  • The Honourable Jacob Botcher, who had made a trip to Ripton and had cited that very decided earthquake shock of the Pingsquit bill, had been ridiculed for his pains, and had gone away again comforted by communion with a strong man.

  • Faith, Monsieur de St. Gre is a strong man, but he was no more than a puppet in his own house when he came back here for a day.

  • But the Consul--strong man that he was--merely laughed.

  • And thus it was that Beltane beheld again Friar Martin, the white friar that had been a man once, a strong man and a gentle.

  • He was a strong man, with the lines of hunger cut deeply in his face.

  • Half an hour later the Olaf was alone on that shallow sea, which seemed lonelier and more silent than ever; for when a strong man quits a room he often bequeaths a sudden silence to those he leaves behind.

  • Allah sends thee a man--a strong man, whose brain and heart and arm are at thy service.

  • The Weight of Obligation[5] By Rex Beach THIS is the story of a burden, the tale of a load that irked a strong man's shoulders.

  • Cantwell was a strong man, and, although the North had coarsened him, yet underneath the surface was a chivalrous regard for all things weak, and this the trail madness had not affected.

  • It grew hot in the room; but Donkin's fingers were like ice on the key, and, strong man though he was, he faltered.

  • This Montañés was Spanish and had married the strong man, an Italian whose real name was Napoleon Pitti.

  • In one of the towns I reinforced the company with a ballerina and a strong man.

  • He was a strong man, about forty, with high cheek bones, reddish skin and a disagreeably sarcastic expression.

  • For this was love that had come upon her like a strong man armed, not as he had shown himself to her before--laughing and merry, playful and sweet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strong man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    child born; could write; dusky brown; ever tasted; ever thou; strong and; strong appeal; strong central; strong cord; strong current; strong detachment; strong enough; strong feeling; strong fortress; strong government; strong guard; strong hand; strong heat; strong holds; strong inclination; strong infusion; strong light; strong pull; strong sense; strongly heated; with white