Moreover, often a man can do as I did in the Spanish War, even though not a West Pointer.
— from Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

He has an axiom which carries the thought-kernel that what man has done, man can do, and it doesn't cut any figure with Perry whether a fellow knows how to do it or not.
— from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A man must certainly don armour in dealing with her."
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

He had already signed some still more compromising document, and is denounced for it as an apostate by Hilary and others.
— from The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

But the picture was even better than his more conscious drawings, and it did look like something.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

Military honours were paid us by these ragged regiments, and we were conducted to the palace square, where Mr. Dance and Mr. Caumont dismounted, and I determined to await the issue of their conference, with my cousin in the court.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

As he stretched out his length upon it, with a ragged handkerchief bound round his wicked head, and only his wicked head showing above the bedclothes, John Baptist was rather strongly reminded of what had so very nearly happened to prevent the moustache from any more going up as it did, and the nose from any more coming down as it did.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

The outlaw affected to relish the proposal; but having artfully drawn from Colonel N—— the plan of his intended attack, he spurned his offers with the most contemptuous disdain, and instantly despatched one of his most trusty corsairs to the governor who had set a price for his life, advising him of the intentions of the enemy, and volunteering the aid of his little band, on the single condition that an amnesty should be granted for their past offences.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham