Say that of the ghost of a man who has been hanged, attending an execution.
Or say the expression of a Catholic, converted by torture, watching the action of the thumb-screws upon another heretic.

The air, in short, of a man who had been through it all before.

And as the then Secretary came madly rushing up the steps, Pollifex confronted him, and said,-- "Don't you wish you were me, T---- ?" "Sir!" said the Secretary, "dipping" his umbrella and dropping his papers, for the purpose of rhetorically pointing with his left hand at nothing; "Sir! flesh and blood can't stand it.

I resign to-morrow." And so he went in to his lunch, and is in office at this present moment.
I must apologize most heartily for this long digression.

The Captain's gig, impelled by the "might of England's pride," was cleverly beached alongside of the other boat, and the Captain stepped out and confronted the midshipman.
"Got any news, Mr.Vang ?" "Yes, sir!" said the midshipman.