He took off his hat with a memory of other days, and said his "Good-mornin'" as the schoolboy does to his teacher--superior, revered, and awesome.
Yet this new character upon this bare little scene was not of a sort to terrify.

Tall she was and shapely, comely with all the grace of youth and health, not yet tanned too brown by the searing prairie winds, and showing still the faint purity of the complexion of the South.

There was no slouch in her erect and self-respecting carriage, no shiftiness in her eye, no awkwardness in her speech.

To Sam it was instantaneously evident that here was a new species of being, one of which he had but the vaguest notions through any experiences of his own.

His chief impression was that he was at once grown small, dusty, and much unshaven.