Meanings of missed the man in English

You missed the man, but you killed a fellow closely following him.

He said, and hurled his spear, but intentionally missed the man.

But I kept my engagement and missed the man I most wished to meet.

A huge pine tree came crashing down across the pool; it barely missed the man.

The Harvester flung the stick of wood, but missed the man and hit the horse.

He had never missed the man, had never been given the impression that Sandalia missed him.

Peter missed the man.

One-Eye had been watching Matt and had missed the man who shifted-oh ,soslyly-intothe line of his blind eye.

Unfortunately, Bombay, who is not the clearest man in the world in expressing himself, stupidly bungled the sultan's arrangement, and we missed the man.

He was evidently convinced that we had missed the man we were chasing and we had come upon the keeper's body in our chase.

The captain immediately missed the man, and, on being informed that he had strolled away from the boat on leave, flew into a violent passion.

He was not, as a rule, vindictive, but the stealthy attack had induced a dangerous mood and he was sorry he had missed the man.