"Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)"

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...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--

— Patrick O'Brian