1 It must be some sort of a play affair.
2 They had a ragamuffin interest in this affair.
3 It was unendurable the way these affairs were managed.
4 Apparently, the regiment had its small affair to itself.
5 The whole affair seemed incomprehensible to many of them.
6 Directly he was working at his weapon like an automatic affair.
7 It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, wound up perhaps to fight until sundown.
8 The men became so engrossed in this affair that they entirely ceased to remember their own large war.
9 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
10 He had been slow in the act of producing the packet because during it he had been trying to invent a remarkable comment on the affair.
11 He was not cast down by this defeat of his plan, for, upon studying the affair carefully, he could not but admit that the objections were very formidable.
12 He wished to return to camp, knowing that this affair was a blue demonstration; or else to go into a battle and discover that he had been a fool in his doubts, and was, in truth, a man of traditional courage.
13 Individuals must have supposed that they were cutting the letters of their names deep into everlasting tablets of brass, or enshrining their reputations forever in the hearts of their countrymen, while, as to fact, the affair would appear in printed reports under a meek and immaterial title.