If he could make the men around him respect him, then they would treat him well; but they could never be brought to respect him by flattery.

He was very nearly right in his views of men, and would have been right altogether could he have seen accurately what justice demanded for others as well as for himself.

As far as the intention went, he was minded to be just to every man.
It seemed, as they were riding, that the heat grew fiercer and fiercer.

Though there was still the same moaning sound, there was not a breath of air.

They had now got upon a track very well known to Heathcote, which led up from the river to the wool-shed, and so on to the station, and they had turned homeward.