31.   A thin man in army uniform came in, walking with a limp.

32.   A well-built young man in uniform came to our table and asked the time.

33.   A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach.

34.   Across a wide expanse of mahogany sat a man in his fifties.

35.   Across the room, a table of young men in fitted shirts is laughing heartily and splashing out wine.

36.   Against the wall behind them sat two smiling young men in denim jackets.

37.   Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers.

38.   Alexander, a heavy-set man in his mid-thirties with a thick beard, laughed.

39.   All the young men in the area were compelled to work in the quarries and coal mines.