What is "like a man"

Usage examples of "like a man".

There was no Woman Who Rides Like a Man to say she could be a shaman.

After a pause, he concluded like a man affirming an article of faith, &quot.

An instant later I heard him running down, and he burst into my consulting-room like a man who is mad with panic.

The President decided to take it like a man and everyone else took their lead from him.

My uncle followed, while the eider-duck hunter remained still, like a man above any childish sources of astonishment.

On gaining the open air, his sensation of weight was instantly removed, but he continued panting and palpitating, like a man who has lifted a far too heavy load.

It was late before he returned, haggard pale, like a man who has done and suffered much.

I pretended that I was ill and did not go, and when night came I went to the quarters of a soldier whom I knew to be on guard and stole harness and I cut off my long hair and painted my face that I might look more like a man, and then I went to the hangars on the palace roof and by a ruse deceived the guards there and stole a one-man flier.

His heart was in his mouth as he walked, and he felt like a man about to set out on his honeymoon, or like a bride who knows not whether to laugh or to cry.

Joe took his own good share, like a man who had eaten nothing for several days.

Steuben spun around, determined to go to his end like a man, on his feet and facing the enemy.

While talking, the guard had taken out a small flat box from a cabinet and pressed some buttons, like a man using a pocket calculator.

I put my ideas together only confusedly, while spinning along like a man going down a waterfall.

But I advanced hopefully and carefully, like a man who at last is to follow.

Although his mule was larger than any of the others, in the light of day he seemed absurdly huge alongside it, like a man walking a dog.