Sentence examples for of a lesser man from inspiring English sources

Allan hands me a pair of binoculars that would break the arm of a lesser man, and I focus on a black dot with a glorious ruby fantail.

After an arduous journey that might have wrecked the constitution of a lesser man, Livingstone reached Luanda on the west coast on May 31 , 1854

Even with that helmet, he is depicted wearing a 20th-century military uniform bedecked with enough medals to stoop the shoulders of a lesser man, or, at least, one not made of bronze.

In the mouth of a lesser man, his interjections might have been no more than sarcasm.

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".

James Prescott Joule, whose findings led to the first law of thermodynamics, spent his honeymoon jury-rigging a thermometer to take a reading at the top and bottom of a waterfall where a lesser man might merely have canoodled.

After two wars and a proxy war, none of them yet successful, a lesser man might shrink from further dealing in blood; but in February, Bush was prepared: "I'm not afraid to make decisions".

Camping, who predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, appears to be impervious to the kind of knocks that would floor a lesser man.

"It is a string of events that would have broken a lesser man.

Under a barrage of Wittgensteinian logic that would break a lesser man, Mr. Evans kept up remarkably good humor.

Again a lesser man would have spent days celebrating in the bars of Weymouth.