Several cities in Russia were built around fortresses called kremlins. Russians built kremlins for defense during the Middle Ages. A kremlin was often located along a river.

The whole ship's company, captain, officers, quarter-masters, passengers, and all, were quite sure that she had succeeded in getting a promise of marriage from him.

When Zhang led a team of agronomists to Shuangta district, Chaoyang city, to deliver lectures on fruit tree cultivation techniques in late 1987, they found the audience consisted of only four old mean who just wanted to kill time rather than learn anything.[…] The annual income of local peasants jumped from 720 yuan per capita in 1987 to 1,033 yuan in 1989 in the Shuangta district.

the Bacchic train, Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes