There is probably no town in China where the click of the Sparrow dominoes is so little heard.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints […]

It is clear that the ovum after fertilization is an entirely different body to the ovum prior to that act , and unless the use of the same term for the two conditions of the ovum had become very familiar , a special term , such as oosperm , for the ovum after the fusion with the spermatozoom, would be very convenient.

In spite of the apostolic zeal of the Christians, who organized expeditions to annihilate the idols, which they broke, smashed, and burned, and in spite of their persecution of the heathen, whom they captured, scourged, chained, locked in stocks or dark cells, and sometimes roasted alive, the ancient faith was always rekindled, more potent than ever, like a ravenous fire that one attempts to douse with teapotsful of water.