I lost my place when I had to get out of line to find you.

Chinese is the most populous language.

After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.

... this man's case, and he informed me then that it was used as a slaughter-house, and I then rode over and inspected the place, found a small corral or inclosure, also a log house and one small building which I supposed was the beef-house.