If you distil the nitrous acid on silk, wool, hairs, or skin, you obtain a certain quantity of animal oil, different from that which forms fat, and a portion of acid similar to the acid of sugar […]

She was winded from her long run.

a blue-grey felt hat with a gold puggaree

The niche-figures and reliefs of the Jui-yun Pagoda at Fu-ch'ing date from the end of the Ming dynasty, as the tower was constructed between 1607 and 1615;⁴¹ these sculptures are amongst the best in the province. The bas-reliefs of Fu-ch'ing, some of which are full of expression (pl. 64a, b), point to a later period of Chinese plastic art, that of the porcelain statuettes produced at Tê-hua 德化 near Ch'uan-chou, and of the wood carvings of Fu-chou, which have flourished from the Ming era up to the present day.