On the 12th of January, the city of Ou-tchang, the capital of the Hou-pe, fell into the hands of the rebels; and the news of this reverse sufficed to spread fear and confusion far and wide among the friends of the government, who occupied themselves in assembling the discordant and frequently licentious population that were willing to enroll themselves under the imperial banners.

His shamanesque installers are two brothers who live in tepees on a squat in the Ibizan forest, and who cleanse new tepees with sage burning and song.

You should learn to profundify and to profundicate. Those are Boren verbs; they're not in the dictionary yet, but we're working on it and we think we're going to make it. They're being used in Washington now and Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal; and a few others have picked it up.

sit on a settle of joy with angels