A dexter and sinister arm embowed in armour, each hand grasping a spear erect […]

I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, …

In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, tarried, in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.

An Ch'ing-lan of Liao-ch'eng was a government student at an early age, but did not pass the provincial examination until many years later.