[M]y antiquarian looked at me with a knowing eye, […] and lowering his voice into a confidential whisper (although not a soul was to be seen within half a mile around), communicated to me a mass of intelligence so much bordering on the nature of a chronique scandaleuse, that I found it necessary to stop his current of abuse by a peremptory order […]

Harper has a few weeks' grace, during which he and his ham-fisted finance minister, Jim Flaherty, can ponder the error of their ways.

When the soil swells on wetting, the former surficial material is mixed with the subsoil.

During the 1930's the percentages of clan fields in the delta region were the following: Hua-hsien, 50 percent; Ying-te, 20; Tung-kuan, 20; Hsiang-shan, 50; Nan-hai, 40; Shun-te, 60; Hsin-hui, 60; En-p'ing, 40; P'an-yu, 50.