coarse sand

Tseng Shao-hua had taken Yen Hsüeh-mei on his back out to the boat which carried her safely back to Chungking.

Similarly, in the Emerson home the adults—who presumably had already been adequately schooled in self-denial—might have their regular, formal winings and dinings.

The French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy took a more self-serious tour of evangelical Christianity when he retraveled the road taken by Alexis de Tocqueville in his study of the modern American psyche, “American Vertigo.”