The ears that leaped from the solid head, the sharp pointed nose with large nostrils, the wide mouth of a great fish, the shaggy brows and eyes of the fighter, the thin gray cockatoo rise of hair on the forehead as if grasped by an invisible hand-all had about them the signs of the battler, whose defiant motto might appropriately have been: "Don't bump me!"
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
Women were privileged to oppose their senselessness to the divine fire: men could not retreat behind such defences; they must meet him on the common ground of men, where this constant battler had never yet encountered a reverse.
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He went quickly on with deepening emphasis: But, comrade of all these years, battler with me for life's victories, did you think you were never to know?
"Bride of the Mistletoe"
James Lane Allen