The country was rigorous in exacting my compliance to my engagements to a punctilio, but equally careless in performing her contracts with me; and why so?

[H]e's devoting too much psychic energy to an ideological pissing war with Monty Kipps. -- Joy Press, http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/0540/051005_arts_smith.php.

In a city known once as a centre of gangsterism and of beggars and prostitutes, it is claimed that now not a single night club exists. About 10,000 prostitutes were put into reformatories for labour reform and rehabilitation to Communist society.

Wierzbowski and his men were so exhausted that they could hardly stay awake, but they knew they could not abandon their wounded comrades.