A virgin you are and a virgin you will remain until your 18th birthday, whereupon you shall crave your first cock, taste your first todger, knuzzle your first knob and this shall be your undoing.

Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.

The [fishing] technique was to clear the channel downstream from the lagoon for about twenty to forty yards, but not all the way to the salt water. A small bridge was left at the lower end of the lagoon. When holding pits had been dug near the end of the re-trenched channel and everyone was ready, the bridge was dug out and the outrush of water brought hundreds of fish along with it.

By the end of the 10th month the baby waves bye-bye but often makes it yowlingly clear that it does not want to see people go.