When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune. When they saw how hard the commune members worked to dig tunnels through the mountains to bring water from the Pan River for irrigation, and the backbreaking labor necessary to build terraced fields, the troupe members were deeply moved.]

Tables were laid out in the palace, profusely covered with wines and refreshments, in the European style; old hands and griffins, fair sex and civilians, seemed all determined to enjoy themselves[…]

The Glossary of Terms used by ecclesiastics in the middle ages, who describe a day by the “introit,” or commencement of the service appointed by the church to be performed thereon, and an explanation of the Canonical Hours, Watches, &c. will frequently be found useful.]

[…] n The Dukes of Brunswick and Artois, according to the Italian authority.