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See: character, humanity, mortality MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of
the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against
man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately
against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the
life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law
signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
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Mugged and left for dead on the rail bed, he is rescued and slowly nursed back to health by a mysterious bag lady. Work all my life, sometime two, three jobs, since I was seventeen, and here I am, still a bag lady. Also putting in appearances were Tomlin alter egos Judith Beasley, 6-year-old wise child Edith Ann and Trudy the bag lady (lifted directly from Tomlin's ``The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'') contemplating the benefits of a reality-detached mind and waiting for her extraterrestrial friends. |
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