I removed it for him, and he always walked with his head much more erect than he needed to do ever afterward.

Both men and women submit to an operation without wincing, or any of that shouting which caused young students to faint in the operating theatre before the introduction of chloroform.

The women pride themselves on their ability to bear pain.

A mother will address her little girl, from whose foot a thorn is to be extracted, with, "Now, ma, you are a woman; a woman does not cry." A man scorns to shed tears.
When we were passing one of the deep wells in the Kalahari, a boy, the son of an aged father, had been drowned in it while playing on its brink.

When all hope was gone, the father uttered an exceedingly great and bitter cry.