How To Use Man of the world In A Sentence
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On me, a mere prosperous tradesman, and busy politician and man of the world, devolves the delicate and responsible task of being the first to write the life of the greatest literary genius this century has produced, _and of revealing the strange secret of that genius_, which has lighted up the darkness of these latter times as with a pillar of fire by night.
The Martian
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A limerick man of the world visiting a neighbour was handed the tv remote for entertainment when his host was temporarily called out of the house.
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No manager of a theatre, -- a man of the world engaged in the acquisition of his livelihood, unless guaranteed by the license of the Censor, dare risk the presentment before a mixed audience of that which might cause an 'emeute' among his clients.
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
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Now, I am a man of the world, and I know where to change on a train journey from Guildford to Bracknell.
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No manager of a theatre, — a man of the world engaged in the acquisition of his livelihood, unless guaranteed by the license of the Censor, dare risk the presentment before a mixed audience of that which might cause an ‘emeute’ among his clients.
The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
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Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.
Chapter 26
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And we may add -- that Cæsar was constitutionally, as well as by accident of position, too much a man of the world, had too powerful a leaning to the virtues of active life, was governed by too partial a sympathy with the whole class of _active_ forces in human nature, as contradistinguished from those which tend to contemplative purposes, under any circumstances, to have become a profound believer, or a steadfast reposer of his fears and anxieties, in religious influences.
The Caesars
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Are you, who are setting up to be a man of the world and a philosopher, to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?
The History of Pendennis
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She is no demi-mondaine, la belle Caprice, but she is ... a woman of the world, let us say.
Watershed
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Manet shows Proust as a dandy, boulevardier and man of the world.
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Meanwhile Mrs hatched her plans, abetted by the man of the world.
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Are you, who are setting up to be a man of the world and philosopher, to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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One is a stay-at-home mom who lives in the house where she grew up, while the other is a thrice-married, childless woman of the world.
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Mrs.St. Pierre Lawrence knew enough, at all events, Colville reflected, rather ruefully, to disillusionise a schoolgirl, much more a woman of the world, knowing good and evil.
The Last Hope
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The man of the world, the scholar, and the poetical artist are happily blended in his satirical productions.
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Manet shows Proust as a dandy, boulevardier and man of the world.
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I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The Cluniac was a man of the world whom no confidences could scandalise.
The Path of the King
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The man of the world sometimes came upon the glove in his pocket, and laughed at it, as such men do when they recall their callow youth.
Tommy and Grizel
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As a merchant, he was a man of the world -- he had seen it all.
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He seemed generous, broad-minded, and, for a sailor, very much of a man of the world.
CHAPTER X
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The marchioness was a woman of the world, while her husband's interests were confined to his books.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 29: Florence to Trieste
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And yet, though the necessary hypocrisy of a man of the world may have gangrened a poet, he ends by carrying the faculties of his talent into the expression of any required sentiment, just as a great man doomed to solitude ends by infusing his heart into his mind.
Modeste Mignon
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To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her.
The Newcomes
