He retired last June, and his coworkers have seen neither hide nor hair of him since.

Now, cocky, ye may gang about your buſineſs; when ye come back, I'ſe tauk with you in another ſtile.

He [the werewolf] kept pressing his forefinger and thumb together to check his nails—no wolfiness so far—so he kept going for it.

During a conversation in the hotel where they were staying, Wei Qi related that at a village named Xujiayao (Hsu Chia Yao) in Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, the villagers had dug up thousands of kilogrammes of dragon bones and had delivered them to the local trading co-op for sale.