Drivers of great expresses, miners, quarrymen, now and then wear that look.

Springing, as it does, not from strength of body, but from the subjugation of the latter and all fleshy shrinking and weariness, it links man with the greatness of the unseen.
There was only the one figure silhouetted against long rows of dusky pines, but the meaning of the way in which the hard, scarred hands were clenched on the big ax was very plain, and Ida could fill in from memory the form of the big chopper and the clusters of expectant men.
"Excellent!" said one of the guests.

"That fellow means to fight.

He's in hard training, too, and that has now and then a much bigger effect than the toughening of his muscles upon the man who submits himself to it.

Is it a portrait or a type ?" The speaker was from the metropolis, and while Arabella hesitated, Ida answered him with a suggestive ring in her voice.
"It's both, one should like to think," she said.