On this peninsula stood a dwelling-house. […] [I]ts tout ensemble struck me with the keenest sense of combined novelty and propriety—in a word, of poetry.

Are you The Banjo? Fair dink no bull? Oh, sorry, lady, I mean ... dinki-di?

We passed the walled district city of I-tu, situated upon a small affluent called the Ching Chiang, or Clear River, which takes its rise in the province of Hu-Nan to the south.]

Objection, Your Honour! The defendant's criminal record is immaterial to this case.