The mallet is made of a hard heavy wood resembling ebony, is about twelve inches in length, and perhaps two in breadth, with a rounded handle at one end ….

Tom's mother was a superb raconteuse with the enviable gift of painting a verbal canvas of enchanting colours, transporting her audience into a realm of her own making that invariably enhanced the core of the tale.

The pronunciation aids to Chinese names are of doubtful value. They are not phonetic, being only a slight modification of the Wade-Giles system, and become really confusing when Mandarin pronunciations are given for Cantonese or historical spellings.

It was the censive in France, the peasant libellary contract in Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries, i.e., the relationship between feudal lord and peasant in which economic elements were overwhelmingly predominant and extra-economic compulsion in the form of personal dependence was generally absent.