My fighting days are over.

I can shoot straight, but shooting would only serve us here until our cartridges were gone--when the rush came a child could knock me over.
You, on the contrary, have the constitution of an ox, the muscles of a bull, and the wind of an ostrich.

You are, if you will pardon my saying so, a magnificent specimen of the animal man.

In the event of trouble you would not hesitate to admit that your chances of escape would be at least double mine.

Trent lit a match under pretence of lighting his pipe--in reality because only a few feet away he had seen a pair of bright eyes gleaming at them through a low shrub.