Mandarinal Vietnam lasted because the foundations on which it was built remained forever the same.

Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]

to break out a pane of glass

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