I was thinking that this squeezing through the vibracious bodies was the most action I had seen in six months.

The opening of the bridge dealt a deathblow to the ferry.

However, alkali and alkaline-earth cations can also occur in the carpholite-type structure; for example, balipholite […] has the carpholite structure (Peng et al. 1987).

With China’s cession of these territories at the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, Japan acquired a strategic dimension appropriate to the age of imperialism. Not only could the navy establish an important base at Makung (known to Japanese navy men as Bakō) in the Pescadores, but these new semitropical territories could now be considered as stepping stones for a nanshin (southward advance) of Japanese power, commerce, and influence into southern China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific.