Vetch felt his strength deserting him, and his brain overpowered by fatigue. Surely the giant, muttering, gesticulating, and slavering at the mouth, was on the road to madness. Would the monster find opportunity to rush at him, and, braving the blood-stained axe, kill him by main force? or would he sleep, and be himself a victim? Unhappy Vetch! It is the terrible privilege of insanity to be sleepless. On the fifth day, Vetch, creeping behind a tree, takes off his belt, and makes a noose. He will hang himself.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Gabbett still retained the axe in his belt. Vetch had dropped his musket at the Neck, and Bodenham and Cornelius were unarmed. "Let's have a look at the tucker," said Vetch. There was but one bag of provisions. It contained a piece of salt pork, two loaves, and some uncooked potatoes. Signal Hill station was not rich in edibles. "That ain't much," said the Crow, with rueful face. "Is it, Gabbett?"
"It must do, any way," returned the giant carelessly.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
The AMERICAN VETCH or TARE or PEA VINE (V. Americana) boasts slightly larger bluish-purple flowers than the blue vetch, but fewer of them; from three to nine only forming its loose raceme. In moist soil throughout a very broad northerly and westerly range it climbs and trails its graceful way, with the help of the tendrils on the tips of leaves compounded of from eight to fourteen oblong, blunt, and veiny leaflets.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
[417] -- MUNGUO. "Moong ... green gram ... a kind of vetch" (Yule and Burnell, Dict.). [418] -- MACHARUY. [419] -- A VINTEM = 1 7/20 of a penny. [420] -- Probably for FANAOS. But the plural of FANAO is usually given as FANOES.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》