He greeted me always, the epitome of cheer, with some gnomic well-wish that half the time I could not make out.

Wearied of cardplay the Chinese sprawled across the seats like drowsy primates, resting their noggins indecorously in the aisle, and gracing the floorboards with their hair as, upside down, they tracked the movements of various kiddies […]

Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the early as well as best datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment datings lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced best datings of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the late datings).

He became shy. I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady. For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.