I was directing my course towards it, as straightly and as speedily as the windings of a very indifferent road would permit […]

, II.32: that woman […] by no threats or stripes would leave to call her husband pricke-lowse [translating pouilleux], and being cast into a pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands, and joyning her two thumbs-nailes in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still […].

I looked at the possibility of buying a new car, but my current one still runs great and it's paid off.

Kwangchow to Enping It was an early spring morning in 1968 when we left Canton city and, cutting across the Pearl river delta, went west to visit the county town of Enping.