Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].

To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me, which though it alter not love's sole effect, yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight. I may not evermore acknowledge thee, lest my bewiled guilt should do thee shame.

Pianist [Thomas A.] Dorsey and guitarist Tampa Red popularized the double-entendre, up-tempo novelty blues style known as hokum blues that was a forerunner of the up-tempo rhythm and blues, whose similarly adult lyrics often had to be bowdlerized when covered by white singers for the white teen market in the 1950s.

I tried to give you the steer, but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you.