17. He wore them like the purple of a king.

His great age is like a royal robe. “Gray hairs are a crown of glory.”

18. Keen for a goal, as from the driving string etc.

In how many and significant ways his face is described in these lines: keen for a goal, like a flinty arrow-head, with a brooding stare. Directions for a statue could scarcely be more exact or more full of suggestion.

Define: ruck, augury, orniscopic, swart, sibyl, attenuated, gnarled, piebald.

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Read the entire description of the Indians at one sitting and get the unified effect.

12. Such foeman as no warrior ever slew.

Hunger.

18. And hurled them shivering back upon the beast.