Apparently the Russians had complained that tea tasted different when it was shipped in by train, having gotten used to tea saturated with the sweat of camels carrying merchants across the Gobi Desert from Shan-hsi.

Despite the mist created by the rain, she could easily make out the two fishermen winching their boat up on to the beach, and an old woman in a headscarf, scurrying past the pub with her dog, then popping something into the letterbox that was set into the wall of the gig house.

If the wit and industry of the Nihilarians were employ'd about the usefull & practical mathematiques, what advantage had it brought to mankind !

He spent no more than a couple of hours in hospital, not a bother on him.