@@@@@He shivered for a moment in the early
@@@@@He shivered for a moment in the early morning air and realized with a pang of shame that for the first time in his life he had been really afraid"The sonsofbitchin' Japs," he saidHis legs were tired and he turned to go back to his gunI hate the bastards, he said to himself, a terrible rage working through his weary body
"One of these days I'm gonna really get me a Jap," he whispered aloudThe river was slowly carrying the bodies downstream
"At least," Gallagher said, "if we got to stay here a couple of days, the fuggers won't be stinkin' up the joint


The Time Machine:
SAM CROFT THE HUNTER

A lean man of medium height but he held himself so erectly he appeared tallHis narrow triangular face was utterly without expressionThere seemed nothing wasted in his hard small jaw, gaunt firm cheeks and straight short noseHis gelid eyes were very bluehe was efficient and strong and usually empty and his main cast of mind was a superior contempt toward nearly all other menHe hated weakness and he loved practically nothingThere was a crude unformed vision in his soul but he was rarely conscious of it

No, but why is Croft that way?
Oh, there are answersHe is that way because of the corruption-of-the-societyHe is that way because the devil has claimed him for one of his ownIt is because he is a Texan; it is because he has renounced God
He is that kind of man because the only woman he ever loved cheated on him, or he was born that way, or he was having problems of adjustment
Croft's father, Jesse Croft, liked to say, "Well, now, my Sam is a mean boyI reckon he was whelped mean And then Jesse Croft, thinking of his wife who was ailing, a weak woman sweet and mild, might add, " 'Course Sam got mother's milk if ever a one did, but Ah figger it turned sour for him 'cause that was the only way his stomach would take it Then he would cackle and blow his nose into his hand and wipe it on the back of his pale-blue dungarees(Standing before his dirty wood barn, the red dry soil of western Texas under his feet "Why, Ah 'member once Ah took Sam huntin', he was only an itty-bitty runt, not big enough to hold up the gun hardly