The campaign noise and the little campaigners were hushed and gone.

There were no men of companionable size about him, and the Great Task lay before him.

The Democratic party has not brought forward large men in public life during its long term of exclusion from the Government; and the newly elected President has had few opportunities and a very short time to make acquaintances of a continental kind.

This little college town, this little hitherto corrupt state, are both small.
I went at my business without delay.

The big country-life idea, the working of great economic forces to put its vitalization within sight, the coming equilibrium by the restoration of country life--all coincident with his coming into the Presidency.