It was a matter to which he gave time and thought freely.
Now, despite all his digging, he was again trim, immaculate, and showed no signs of perspiration.

He would have died rather than betray nervousness or excitement.
"I've no doubt that we've underrated them," said Harry.

"Just as the people up North have underrated us.

Colonel Talbot told me long ago that this was going to be a terribly big war, and now I know he was right." A long time passed without any demonstration on the part of the enemy.
The sun reached the zenith and blazed redly upon the men in the fort.
Harry looked longingly at the dark green woods.

He remembered cool brooks, swelling into deep pools here and there in just such woods as these, in which he used to bathe when he was a little boy.