She held it up to the light — a standard wire bobbypin of a dark shade, the sort that is manufactured for brunettes.

Wu Yüeh, a distant relative of Wang An-shih 王安石 (1021-86), was active from the late years of Hui-tsung's reign into Kao-tsung's, serving his last post as grand custodian in Shang-jao, Kiangsi.

If these practices are not directed by and toward principles of equity, then they will almost certainly end up reinforcing patterns of ecoapartheid.

[…] their fraction is more our wish than their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool could disunite.