It amused me in the midst of my loneliness to keep my tongue busy and I exhausted all my knowledge, which included a number of declamations from the speeches of Otis, Henry and Webster, in the effort.

Before the journey was half over I had taken a complete inventory of my mental effects.

I repeat that it was amusement--of the only kind available--and not work to me.
I reached the mill safely and before the grain was ground the earth and the sky above it were white with snow driving down in a cold, stiff wind out of the northwest.

I loaded my grists and covered them with a blanket and hurried away.

The snow came so fast that it almost blinded me.