I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.