Behind this lay the recognition that Italy could only afford 'an exiguous number' of the supercolossi that Japan and America were proposing to build[.]

Stop for lunch at Fusing and then explore Chiang Kai-shek’s legacy at nearby Cihu.

Esquires and gentlemen are confounded together by Sir Edward Coke, who observes that every esquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat-armour, the grant of which was thought to add gentility to a man's family. It is indeed a matter somewhat unsettled what constitutes the distinction, or who is a real esquire; for no estate, however large, per se confers this rank upon its owner.

She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.