[…] can only be accounted for on the supposition that they recognise the resemblance it bears to their national pipe, and believe in nothing without a sough, whether it be the birr of the drone, or the more dissonant but characteristic falsetto that governs the higher notes of the chaunter.

Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.

The process through which China was forcibly drawn into the worldwide European-dominated international system is that of the demise of Sinocentrism. … If we telescope the changes of the Chinese views of the world and of their dealings with the outside nations and states in the years from 1840 to 1900, it is clear that the physical demise of Sinocentrism can be found in China's recognition of equality of other states with China; …

Sometimes the process of digging uncovered a deal breaker.