Sentence examples for lesser man's from inspiring English sources

The glower the Giants gave him over disputed calls would have reduced a lesser man's knees to water, considering.

Such experiences would have tested a lesser man's flint.

Now, for a smaller man than Roger, a man with less steady nerves, this might have been a warning note, an incitement to panic; maybe, even, an invitation to think about missed mortgage payments, promised but unbought diamond necklaces, the deferment of holiday plans; because, to a lesser man than Roger, Max's words might have sounded awfully like a "but".

He was now prepared to admit that he had been a lesser man before his mother's win.

"As my Dad would say after these April Fool's announcements, 'This would kill a lesser man.'".

"A lesser man might be tempted to lie," Mr. Maine writes about Noe's calling.

A lesser man would have given up.

That alone would have daunted a lesser man.

But Kuerten, a lesser man once, stayed calm.

A LESSER man might have quit by now.

Oates, alas, was led to his death by Captain Scott, a lesser man than he.