An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed's head

The life of ants is crowded with such socialphychological corrections which regulate the mechanism of instinct by individual “plasticisms,” conduct it into useful paths, and thus bring about an adaptation to external advantages and disadvantages.

After a wedding was over a matchmaker was generally rewarded with a leg of pork, two bottles of brandy and an angpow; one set of each from the groom's and the bride's parents.

There was a clatter at the back of the gallery, a sharp word from a warder, and the men marched in in their prison greys, jackets too large, trousers too small.