The pressure the detectives exerted on the suspect got him to eventually give a confession.

Frederick Douglas spent the early years of his life in servitude before eventually escaping from slavery and then working to abolish it.

The captured P.O.W.s demonstrated a great amount of fortitude as they refused to give their enemy interrogators any information about their mission.

Once when I had been back-country camping and hiking for two days, I was really craving a soda, when I suddenly spied an unopened Dr. Pepper under a bench by a lake. Was it providential or just coincidental?

After he rose to his position of power, he refused to acknowledge the humble beginnings from which he came and the people who had helped him to the top.

) The parents were filled with apprehension when the bus returning from the field trip was two hours late.

Looking at the plate of “mystery meat,” the kids were not able to hide their looks of abhorrence.

After the storms came through, there was no way the elderly couple would have been able to clean up their yard without the invaluable help of their neighbors.

The couple repaid their neighbors’ benevolence by baking cookies for everyone.

After years of British oppression, the colonists decided to declare their independence in 1776.

You were professedly opposed to tattoos, so what is that fresh ink pattern on your arm?

Detested by his employees, there was no going away party for the manager when he left.

I had successfully weaned myself from sodas—and then the pandemic lockdown came.

From the time she was a child, she had imbibed from her parents the belief that all people really are created equal.