Eating more beans may help you lose a little poundage.

Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.

Where do you keep your cash, bub? asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.

The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.