I have known her all my life.

I did not know she was believed to be a male in female disguise.

I did not know she had any name at all, let alone half-a-dozen." The policeman seemed to be troubled all the time by mosquitoes.

He slapped his face and his ears and the back of his neck.

He succeeded in killing one insect upon the bridge of his nose, and left it there by mistake, a strangely ignoble corpse.