[…] his mind was aswim with imagined conspiracies;

“Land sailing?” This guy was more besotted with sailing than I had imagined. “Think of it as bicycling on three or four wheels with a sail and speeding through the desert, often in salt flats,” he responded enthusiastically.

Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.

1 Fai.: Mistress, this is only spite: For you would not yesternight Kiss him in the cock-shut light.