He then loosened my gallowses (braces), and buckled them tightly above my hips.

"Now, then, bantam, never say die!" Conway regarded these business-like preparations with evident misgiving, for he called Rodgers to his side, and had himself arrayed in a similar manner, though his hair was cropped so close that you couldn't have taken hold of it with a pair of tweezers.
"Is your man ready ?" asked Phil Adams, addressing Rodgers.
"Ready!" "Keep your back to the gate, Tom," whispered Phil in my car, "and you'll have the sun in his eyes." Behold us once more face to face, like David and the Philistine.

Look at us as long as you may; for this is all you shall see of the combat.
According to my thinking, the hospital teaches a better lesson than the battle-field.

I will tell you about my black eye, and my swollen lip, if you will; but not a word of the fight.
You'll get no description of it from me, simply because I think it would prove very poor reading, and not because I consider my revolt against Conway's tyranny unjustifiable.
I had borne Conway's persecutions for many months with lamb-like patience.

I might have shielded myself by appealing to Mr.Grimshaw; but no boy in the Temple Grammar School could do that without losing caste.
Whether this was just or not doesn't matter a pin, since it was so--a traditionary law of the place.