The potential revenues of China are immense, but they are ‘shroffed’... by every hand through which they pass.

On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […].

He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl - two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered.

A woman whose husband is missing or legally incompetent or who refuses to grant her a Jewish writ of divorce is traditionally referred to as a chained woman (agunah) and is unable to remarry. To prevent this situation, the Conservative Movement has created a t'nai b'kiddushin (prenuptial condition), written either as a separate codicil or as part of the Conservative k'tubbah (wedding document), which specifies that the groom agrees to provide a get if the marriage is dissolved in the civil court.