The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.

Back in Belding, he was always the tough guy, the one who rode around in his dad's Pontiac Lemans with the vinyl top and the automatic on the floor. He drove that car like he was the King Shit of Turd Island, and I guess all of us was.

The first i-hsüeh (charity schools) were started in 1702, when the Board of Rites received imperial approval to establish them outside the Ch'ung-wen gate of the imperial city. Three years later similar institutions were authorized for Kweichow province for the benefit of the sons and younger brothers of the chieftains of tribal groups.