The soldiers exposed themselves by moving into unfamiliar territory.

When they build a machine, if they do the calculations right, the machine works and you get this intense... uhh... just like a geekasm, from knowing that what you created in your mind and on the computer is actually doing what you told it to do.

Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.

New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.