She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends.

The cat plays about her comrade's forefeet or his trunk often, until dogs approach, and then she goes aloft out of danger.

The elephant has annihilated several dogs lately that pressed his companion too closely.
We hired a sailboat and a guide and made an excursion to one of the small islands in the harbor to visit the Castle d'If.

This ancient fortress has a melancholy history.

It has been used as a prison for political offenders for two or three hundred years, and its dungeon walls are scarred with the rudely carved names of many and many a captive who fretted his life away here and left no record of himself but these sad epitaphs wrought with his own hands.