Shih Hsün's first attempted suicide, for example, falls on the same day Wang Chung-chao goes to Chia-hsing to visit his ideal love (chapter 3); and Wang's return from Chia-hsing coincides with three events inside and outside of the revolutionary camp: the internal quarrel and disbandment of the west-side group as reported to him by Chang Ch'iu-liu, Chang Man-ch'ing's invitation to the debate in his school on where the next war will start, and the Tsinan Incident of May 3, 1928, in which Japanese soldiers murdered Chinese civilians in Shangtung Province.

They possess good antiseize properties.

Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers following Root's 'grillage' principle.

Seest, howe brag yond Bullocke beares, So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares?[…] See howe he venteth into the wynd.