There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.

The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers.

Ning-po, which is situated a short distance westward of Chusan, is the principal emporium of Che-keang province.

One day, however, by her self-important gait, the side-way turn of her head, and the cock of her eye, as she pried into one and another nook of the garden, […]