One Japanese stationed in East Java, for instance, an employee of Mitsubishi Shōji, received an order to deliver five tons of devil's tongue, a plant called konyak (konnyaku in Japanese) that naturally occurs in Indonesia.

… down burst torrents of thick rain and muddied us to the skin. The valley began to run in plashes of water, and Dakhil-Allah urged us across it quickly. …

Thenne syr Marhaus departed and within two dayes his damoysel brought hym where as was a grete tornement that the lady de Vawse has cryed […] And there syr Marhaus dyd so nobly that he was renomed & had somtyme doune fourty knyghtes and soo the serklet of gold was rewarded hym

They didn't speak. They didn't stand. They didn't even look up when I came in.