| The Englishman, also 22 years of age, seemed broader, taller, his muscles more pronounced and his expression meaner, next to Simpson's pallid wiriness. |
| The texture of abandoned fields and fencerows is imparted mainly by the cluttered verticality of grassblades, and the scrawny wiriness of tough-stemmed, small-leafed weeds. |
| But there was a residual wiriness, as he sat, a strength remaining from a lifetime of vigorous activity in nature. |
