Make your search! I ask for it; no, I insist on it, after what has been said, in justice to my family and my name!" The neighbors took him at his word.

The Morwick section of the American nation organized itself on the spot.

The sovereign people met in committee, made speeches, elected competent persons to represent the public interests, and began the search the next day.

The whole proceeding, ridiculously informal from a legal point of view, was carried on by these extraordinary people with as stern and strict a sense of duty as if it had been sanctioned by the highest tribunal in the land.
Naomi met the calamity that had fallen on the household as resolutely as her uncle himself.

The girl's courage rose with the call which was made on it.