They used to lie in wait for him all day long, with stones or horse-chestnuts or snowballs, according to the season.
The Irishmen from the wagon-works nearly killed him once or twice, but he patiently lived it all down.

The Chinaman has the patience to live everything down--the Caucasian races included.

He will see us all to bed, will that gentleman with the pigtail!" The music over in the church had lifted itself again into form and sequence, and defied the closed window.

If anything, it was louder than before, and the sonorous roar of the bass-pedals seemed to be shaking the very walls.

It was something with a big-lunged, exultant, triumphing swing in it--something which ought to have been sung on the battlefield at the close of day by the whole jubilant army of victors.