Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.

The fabulous star has dwindled, Powerless against man's weaponries […]

The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.

Where, the purists cry, are the heart-racing climbs and knee-trembling descents for which the Dolomites is justly famed?