Shouyang has grown to be quite a big town, and Yangchuan, when we got to it, a sizable modern city. The road between Shouyang and Yangchuan was blocked in several places as loess was being brought down from above to fill in a big area of valley land, in which the river has been put between two high stone dykes so that stony waste river-bed could be reclaimed. Emerging from Yangchuan, a big road-widening project was under way.]

Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.

Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop's ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh! Quoted from Mr. Dallager the Factor’s Relation, page 46.

The private conception of any breach of law is apt to be inspiriting, for the scheme (while yet inchoate) wears dashing and attractive colours.