[…] he motioned courtlily that she should enter.

That mechanic's a bum - he couldn't fix a yo-yo.

But patience is more oft the exerciſe / Of Saints, the trial of thir fortitude,

In the far west (Persia and the other countries of the Near East), the Chinese were held to be most remarkable for their figured silks. Fortunately the warm sand of such stations on the Silk Route as Turfan and Min-feng have preserved fragments of the weaves from which we can appreciate the artistry of colour and design as well as the barely credible skill of the weaving technique.