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...wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen, rocks like petrified caravans of camels, horsemen and carts; and over all saw the barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against the iron lances of the Western knights: the Mongolia which has only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated...
...number of tea-drinkers is increasing rapidly; and as we cannot believe that a man can drink tea on seriously without some softening and mellowing influence coming over him, we are forced to the welcome conclusion that aestheticism is at last making progress in what formerly seemed a barren field...
...There has been need of a light for his feet--a cuiding beacon of hope towards which he might struggle across the orange pops the blocked his way. And at last it has come dight in sunset livery of scarlet and gold, shedding its mellow rays alike upon the barren walks of the Yard and the Dingy gutters of Plympton street. And the undergraduate rejoices and is content...
...first clue came when we unearthed a barren-looking, square brick building, somewhat resembling a prison, which was attached to the large club-building previously mentioned. The only ornaments on the walls were ideographs representing the famous Inca sport of Rolo. From this we gathered that the building had been a dining-hall for athletes. In the kitchen were found the remains of elaborate ovens, and neatly tabulated parchment list of food. These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have...
...present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...