The birds were nowhere to be seen or heard, not even a singing willy-wagtail lightly flittering from rock to rock […].

Sinkiang is linked with Tibet by the Sinkiang-Tibet Highway, which begins at Jo-chʻiang (Charkhlik) in southern Sinkiang.

The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.