at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. That me repentith, seyde the kynge[…].

He expected a stomp or a fist against the table but instead she held still and he thought he noticed her shoulders moving up and down in slight huffs.

Two other major coal-mining centers, each producing coking-grade bituminous coal, have been developed in Honan since the late 1950's. Hopi, in northernmost Honan, arose in 1957 on the site of a small, primitive operation in a deposit of lean coal, low in volatile content. A city was established in that year, and the mining complex was linked by a 12-mile rail spur with Tangyin, on the main Peking-Hankow line.

...at 36 he is still able to bare-knuckle the swagger out of the biggest lumberjack in the Northwest.