Findings:

• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was a man and a woman
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was once a Man
• So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There are two sides to every bet: a crook and a fool
• There Once Was a Farmer
• He Was a Crook
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• The Man Who Was (user)
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• The Crooked Man
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• and there was this girl
• This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules.
• Jesus was a black man
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a rose that faded young
• Your husband was a great man
• Adam really was the first man
• Before you, there was me
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a little girl
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Somewhere north of Houston, there is a short smelly man that I don't care for
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• man, there sure are a lot of stories
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• No shit, there I was
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a time before
• There Was A Friend
• I was there
• There was a cold day
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Once there came a man
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• My man was shot for his sheep coat
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• God was created in man's image
• Man Was Made to Mourn
• man when you are telling me how it was
• There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There is no man in the sky who cares what we eat and drink and fuck
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Where's the kaboom?
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• One hour there was sunlight
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a land where lived no violets
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Was There a Time
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Was it ever there?
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There Was No Leak
• There was a baby in China
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Once there was a way...
• There was always the blue of you
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• A knock there was upon the door
• I remember, there was one
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Man was created in God's image
• The Black Crook
• The Crooked Magician
• By hook or by crook
• Max Crook
• all the crooked secrets we keep in the cupboard
• Small Time Crooks
• that hour we lost was the one I was going to use to get my life together
• Them Crooked Vultures
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
• Blue Man Group
• The Man of La Mancha
• The Mythical Man-Month
• Son of Man
• Notre Dame Man
• Man of the Century
• The Gingerbread Man
• Terminal Man
• Man Bites Dog
• To boldly go where no man has gone before
• old man
• Puma Man
• poor man's thinking
• Dead Man
• Arms and the man
• The Man in Black
• The Man Who Sold the World
• Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man
• Man's desire to blow shit up, and to have a nice attache case
• medicine man
• To Serve Man
• Flesh Man
• Culligan Man
• Maytag Repairman
• The Man Show
• stunt man
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Take it like a man
• Too Much Coffee Man
• man of letters
• Fat Man
• Man Rune
• Man Hand
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Co-worker: pretzel-smoking man

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