So, while Rusticus will point out to you the auld-fashioned standin' stane --on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig,--Mr Urban will describe to you a hieroglyphed monolith in the terms following:-- "The Buddhist triad is conspicuously symbolised by what the peasantry call a pair of spectacles.
I was prepared to meet a radical atheist jihadist. Would we brawl right there in my hotel room? I half expected just that.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
In the city’s poor neighborhoods, survivors stood in knots in front of shuttered shacklike stores, vowing revenge and rehearsing in painful detail the attack on Monday that appears to have killed as many as 157 people protesting against the government at the September 28th Stadium here, according to opposition and human rights figures.
