He was a gallant figure on the high-headed chestnut mare which his father had sent to him.

Purvis and I, in our working suits, were like a pair of orderlies following a general.

We rode two of the best saddle horses in the judge's stable and there were no better in that region.
I had read the deeds of the men we were to visit.

They were brothers and lived on adjoining farms with leases which covered three hundred and fifty acres of land.

Their great-grandfather had agreed to pay a yearly rent forever of sixty-two bushels of good, sweet, merchantable, winter wheat, eight yearling cattle and four sheep in good flesh and sixteen fat hens, all to be delivered in the city of Albany on the first day of January of each year.