If she could have stood off and looked at the main issues of the battle she might have felt, even on the mere earthly plane, exaltation.

Yet one truth her experience confirmed--that no human being who in his time and way has been hunted as the offscouring of the world--no, not the noblest--has ever had his martyrdom presented in a form that seemed to him majestic.

It is only those who bear persecution, not in its reality but in imagination, who can conceive of it thus.
All night the women were crowded together in the small inner room with the two sick babes, while Emma and two of the brethren performed the painful operation of taking the tar from Smith's lacerated skin.

The prophet bore himself well.

Now and then, through the thin partition the watchers heard an involuntary groan, but he was firm in his determination to be clean of the pitch, and to preach as he had appointed the next day.
At dawn Susannah went to get her horse at Rigdon's house.