Sentence examples for petrified man from inspiring English sources

Her readership grew steadily after the publication of A Curtain of Green (1941; enlarged 1979), a volume of short stories that contains two of her most anthologized stories—"The Petrified Man" and "Why I Live at the P.O".

Whoever announced Macaulay Culkin's death has an ancient kindred spirit in the boy who cried wolf, and a more recent one in Mark Twain, who invented a story about the unearthing of a 100-year old petrified man in his town (they had less celebrities in those days).

When I first read Eudora Welty's story "Petrified Man," I felt as though the author had been sitting in a corner of my mother's beauty parlor, writing things down the entire time I was growing up; indeed, part of what fascinated me about the tale was its description of a little boy who listened to stories just as I listened to stories.

("He's turning to stone," Leota the beautician observes sagely of the Petrified Man. "How'd you like to be married to a guy like that?") It is the uncertainly educated denizens of Welty's ingrown, post-historic, Coca-Cola-sodden South who are more truly akin to monsters — albeit, at Welty's dismaying best, entirely guileless and extremely funny ones.

Another story, called "Petrified Man" — in which the horror of a carnival freak show is easily outdone by the horror of a small-town beauty parlor ("this den of curling fluid and henna packs") — was rejected so many times that she burned it in disgust, and then rewrote it from memory when Robert Penn Warren, the editor of The Southern Review, changed his mind and wanted it back.

The first was for "Petrified Man" (1939); "A Worn Path" won in 1941.

"Discovered" (1869) by well diggers, the statue was alleged to be a 10-foot (3-metre) petrified prehistoric man, until the hoax was exposed by the American paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh.

The community developed as a market-processing centre for the surrounding farmlands and for the area's large gypsum deposits; gypsum quarried near Fort Dodge was used for a statue that was purported to be a petrified prehistoric man in the celebrated Cardiff Giant hoax.

You hear of illicit night-time boat trips out into the bay, people wrapped in dark blankets, like a dirty smuggler's cargo, jumping from one boat to another, all the while bribing the petrified boat man to make the trip.

This is different from the other 365 days of the year, when custom dictates that those same, petrified straight men are the ones who, in the panic following an argument, should be the ones to make the biggest mistake of their lives and ask her to get married.

This is different from the other 365 days of the year, when custom dictates that those same, petrified straight men are the ones who, in the panic following an argument, should be the ones to make the biggest mistake of their lives and ask the woman to get married.