They had been known to overturn street-cars.

Those leaping horses, striking sparks from the cobbles in their forward lunge, were creatures to be ineffably admired.
The clang of the gong pierced his breast like a noise of remembered war.
When Jimmie was a little boy, he began to be arrested.

Before he reached a great age, he had a fair record.
He developed too great a tendency to climb down from his truck and fight with other drivers.

He had been in quite a number of miscellaneous fights, and in some general barroom rows that had become known to the police.

Once he had been arrested for assaulting a Chinaman.