While every leaf that His plumes touch / Saith His Name audibly.

I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.

Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.

…villages in Hong'an County, Hubei had expended nearly 200,000 yuan in 1983 for making clan dragon-lanterns (xingshi longdeng).