Thus, protected by the leather pad, the elephant becomes a formidable battering-ram, backed by tons of weight.

Only the solidity of stone may stay him.
Ahmed's elephant shouldered through the gates grandly.

For all the resistance they offered that skull they might have been constructed of papier mache.
Through the dust they hurried.

Whenever a curious native got in the way the butt of a rifle bestirred him out of it.
Umballa had lashed Kathlyn to a sapling which was laid across the path of the car.

The man was mad, stark mad, this night.