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...Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their ears are accustomed to the Chinese tone, reassuringly universal. There...
...Hussy? What is she? that none of our swains have met her? That none of the girls have seen her. The red-headed Ruth with limpid eye exists as a real menace, a panther grimly lurking in dark corners, ready to spring from her lair only to capture the myriad of Harvard youths who have been vainly looking, longing, searching for the merest glimpse of those Eire eyes, those laughing lips, those daring dimples--all portrayed so accurately by the Boston Sunday Advertiser. Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose; the Harvard youths should wear that winter face...
Dust had grimed the dregs at the foot of the bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
Florida is entitled to a correction in this matter so that the public will know that justice in Florida is not only swift and sure but also lair...
Taking along a load of opium, a load of Japanese yen and a load of warm winter clothing, Captain Kawahito set off in command of a platoon, floundered through awful mud to the bandits' lair-all because His Britannic Majesty's Government refuses to be trifled with...