Similarly, verb forms that can govern either transitive or middle-case marking (cf. 2.1.3.1.2(c)) are more telic in their transitive manifestations.

After preaching on the street, and learning from the Custom House officers particulars of the troubles, we engaged a small boat to take us to Sha-shih, and thence hired another to Wu-chang.

...not a street of show poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is show iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks...

Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget, he continued, in the pleading tone. I can't keep e'm still, not I.