The most interesting thing to the chicken fanciers—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.

Armymen rushed to the fatherly leader and presented to him a bunch of fragrant flowers imbued with the unanimous feelings of loyalty and adoration of the officers and men of the unit.

A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).

He banged up his new car last night.