One wouldn't believe how much that delicate woman can accomplish.

Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors.
But she went to the roughest, and the cellars and store-rooms opened before her, as the waves of the sea divided before the people of Israel.
How she does it, Heaven knows, but the people can't refuse her." Georg drew a long breath and left the kitchen.

In the court-yard he found several city soldiers, volunteers and militia-men, with whom he went through exercises in fencing.

Van der Werff placed it at his disposal for this purpose, and there certainly was no man in Leyden more capable than the German of supplying worthy Allertssohn's place.
Barbara was not wrong.

His pupils looked emaciated and miserable enough, but many of them had learned, in the dead man's school, to wield the sword well, and were heartily devoted to the profession.
In the centre of the court-yard stood a human figure, stuffed with tow and covered with leather, which bore on the left breast a bit of red paper in the shape of a heart.