Damug circled the cage which held the creature, idly clacking his swordblade against the seasoned wood bars.

Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.

Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.

By reason of the potential fertility of its lössic soils wherever water could be made available, it has afforded a productive agricultural base for political and military activity, and by reason of its location and physiography it has provided the entrance to the main routeway from the Chinese heartland to Central, and ultimately to Western, Asia.