Better get what rest you can; we shall have twenty miles to ride before dark.

I'll go over into the timber there an' feed the horses." I watched him cross the open land, impressed by the man's immense shoulders and short limbs.

I could scarcely analyze the influence he already exerted over me, but I felt him to be a natural leader of men, an intellectual as well as physical giant.

I picked up a book lying open on the bench--it was an English translation of a famous French treatise on Democracy; within its pages was Payne's pamphlet on the Rights of Man, its paper margins covered with written comments.

This blacksmith was not only a man of action, but a man of thought also.