The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.

From my exceſſe of moyſture, with ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all growne barren?

a knowledgeable man

In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly.