How charged with language behind him is a dog! Everybody has noticed it.

Let a dog turn away from a hostile circle, and his crisp and wary tail not merely defends him, it menaces; it is a weapon.

Man has no choice but to surge and boil, or stiffen preposterously.

Knowing the popular sentiment about his marketing--for men can see behind their backs, though they may have nothing to speak with--Tinman resembled those persons of principle who decline to pay for a "Bless your honour!" from a voluble beggar-woman, and obtain the reverse of it after they have gone by.

He was sufficiently sensitive to feel that his back was chalked as on a slate.