Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).

You must look at Bewick to see just what it was like, for he has drawn it a hundred times with the care and the love of a true north countryman […].

In his discussion of this psalm [Psalm 101], Augustine [of Hippo] elaborates an allegory in which the three birds, the pelican, the night owl ('nycticorax') and the sparrow ('passer'), represent three aspects of, or stages in, the earthly life of Christ. The pelican represents his solitary birth and upbringing, the night owl his agony before and during the crucifixion, and the sparrow his resurrection.