It gets pretty soft in some of them swamps.

Can't figure on putting up as much in this country as we used to down on the Muskegon." The scaler smiled a thin smile all to himself behind the stove.

Big John Radway depended so much on the moral effect of approval or disapproval by those with whom he lived.

It amused Dyer to withhold the timely word, so leaving the jobber to flounder between his easy nature and his sense of what should be done.
Dyer knew perfectly well that the work was behind, and he knew the reason.

For some time the men had been relaxing their efforts.