page 139: It is an established fact that Anequin de Egas gave shape to the new conception of the priant in about 1467, when Juan […] , the architect of the famous convent church of Guadalupe in Estramadura, died. page 144: We begin to ask ourselves whether the priants were intended to depict souls or human portraits.

In the tenth century, livestock breeding was still the basic form of economic activity among the Tanguts. Chinese officials reported to the court: 'The Tanguts live in the sands, pasture livestock, and do not have a permanent place of residence.'⁴

[…] you may pass with lively snores and gugglings from natural sleep into the deep slumber of heat apoplexy.

“… 'Yeah, you fix it up for us, Elsa,” said one of his henchboys.