1 It was as if worlds were being rended.
2 The world was fully interested in other matters.
3 This part of the world led a strange, battleful existence.
4 The swishing saplings tried to make known his presence to the world.
5 "Didn't say I knew everything in the world," retorted the other sharply.
6 He had taken up a first position behind the little tree, with a direct determination to hold it against the world.
7 No, I ain't," exclaimed the loud soldier indignantly; "and I didn't say I was the bravest man in the world, neither.
8 Yet the youth smiled, for he saw that the world was a world for him, though many discovered it to be made of oaths and walking sticks.
9 When the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a thousand years, and he felt sure that he opened his eyes upon an unexpected world.
10 There was a portion of the world's history which he had regarded as the time of wars, but it, he thought, had been long gone over the horizon and had disappeared forever.
11 He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.