I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.