He was patting America on the head, both of them life size, and carrying on that historical argument with his sailors in bas-relief below; and he looked a very fine character.

As poppa said, he was just the man you would pick out to discover America.
The Senator also remarked that you could see from the position of the statue, right there in full view of the travelling public, that the Genoese thought a lot of Columbus; relied upon him, in fact, as their biggest attraction.

Momma examined him from the carriage.

She said it was most gratifying to see him there in his own home, so to speak; but her enthusiasm did not induce her to get out.

Momma's patriotism has always to be considered in connection with the state of her nerves.
The state of all our nerves was healed in a quarter of an hour.