Nasty unpolished toe-crushing boots are equally acceptable, but don't let anyone see you wearing neat woolly knee-socks.

All sublunary Comforts imitate the Changeableness, as well as feel the Influence, of the Planet they are under.

Throughout this book, I have assumed that adpositions (prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories. […] While this view of adpositions is far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff (1977: 31-33), in which adpositions constitute a fourth lexical category, filling out the logical space of possibilities defined by the two binary-valued features +!/!!-!! mathsf N and +!/!!-!! mathsf V.

A Nestorian stele, dated 781AD, was discovered in 1625 near Chang'an.