The potential revenues of China are immense, but they are ‘shroffed’... by every hand through which they pass.

Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?

The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.

[…] who, it turned out, devoted all his spending money to them, asked me if I had ever seen a wishtonwish.