He was soon pulled off by another freshman, and the merry war went on.
Little Tad Horner was right in the hottest scrimmage, and he proved formidable for the freshmen, despite his size.

He had a way of darting under them and tripping them up, then getting away before he could be grappled.
Dismal Jones was quoting Scripture and doing his best to make himself felt by the sophomores.

Jones was a character.

His parents were "shouting Methodists," and they intended him for the ministry.

He had a long, sad face, but he was full of deviltry, and it was very seldom that the freshmen entered into any affair against the sophomores that he was not on hand and interested.
"Lay on and spare not!" he cried, after the style of a camp-meeting revivalist.