Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


Saxon shuddered, then resigned herself to Billy's playful
demonstration of the weak points in the human anatomy. He pressed
the tip of a finger into the middle of her forearm, and she knew
excruciating agony. On either side of her neck, at the base, he
dented gently with his thumbs, and she felt herself quickly
growing unconscious.


"That's one of the death touches of the Japs," he told her, and
went on, accompanying grips and holds with a running exposition.
"Here's the toe-hold that Notch defeated Hackenschmidt with. I
learned it from Farmer Burns.--An' here's a half-Nelson.--An'
here's you makin' roughhouse at a dance, an' I 'm the floor
manager, an' I gotta put you out."

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