One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
The artist in me cries out for design.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.