The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance.

They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship.

He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.

He stood up, with slight agitation, and poured himself a second glass of champagne, having quickly, burpingly, drunk the first.