A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe, A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall...

For as in the heavens the diſtance of the North and Southern pole, which are eſteemed the ſuperiour and inferiour points, is equall unto the ſpace between the Eaſt and Weſt

The Liang-shu mistakes Mo 末 for Chʻieh-mo 且末 during the Han (漢). But, adjoining Po-ssŭ in the west and Po-tʻi 白題 (Balkh) in the east, it should be identified with Marw. The statement of the Liang-shu that Mo adjoins Ting-ling 丁零 or Kao-chʻê 高車 in the north is based on the misunderstanding that Mo was located at Chʻieh-mo of what is now Cherchen in Chinese Turkestan.

And these kisses, […] it was Mrs. Gorman's invariable habit to catch up, as it were, upon her own lips, and return, with tranquil civility, as one picks up a glove, or newspaper, let fall in some public place, and restores it with a smile, if not a bow, to its rightful proprietor. So that each kiss was in reality two kisses, first Watt's kiss, velleitary, anxious, and then Mrs. Gorman's, unctious and urbane.