My dad told me never to gesture with my hands when I talk.

As for Janie, she stood there, petrified, and now her face had become as ugly as sin, and as vicious, and as malevolent.

As previously mentioned, short sleep has been linked to reduced life expectancy. This relationship probably has its source mainly in short total sleep time patterns resulting from medical and/or other sleep pathologies and not in short sleep itself, as represented by the short sleeper.

Isn't the haill country hoatching with disbanded sojers, men with guns and swords that haven't been paid for months, that'll cut a throat for a couple of maiks?