Eggie, who cursed me for my dread fascination with churches, spires, and cathedrals, and such, ordered to hold my head straight as he sketched a neutral diagram of me under a violet ruby cross in the wuthering light, joking a bit that I looked like a weathered fat lady that was floating in mid-air.

Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.

These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].

On the first night of the antimakeup crusade, policewomen kept close watch over the city's train stations. Now go right back and wash your face, one of the policewomen told a rosy-cheeked 16-year-old coming out of a restroom.