But in the garden was life in all its glad and bright hues: the early roses and the late violets opened their urns, exhaling in perfume the drops they caught, till every breath was pleasure; the laburnums, those prodigals of fleeting wealth, were covered with gold; and the Persian lilacs waved graceful as the Circassian maidens, to whom they are so often compared in eastern song.

The men were just digging a well in Xiyangzu, Xiahe Village, Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. “It was on March 29, 1974 when we were digging in the south west of our village, looking for water,” Yang Xinman, head of the team of workers, told Beijing Today. “After having dug four meters, we noticed some fragments of arms, legs and arrow heads made from pottery.”

The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.

In a bored voice, he droned, One sees so many cow-handed drivers on the roads, 'tis shocking. Elizabeth pasted a patently false smile on her face. "No doubt, sir, you would know more about cow-handed driving than I