“In the struggle which followed Temür's death, we find almost all the political actors who had played a part in his rise to power and his early rule.”

“Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.”

“A notable businessman, who started off as an ordinary salesman, told me that he put his success down to that one little trick for breaking the ice with his customers.”

“They gave Brian a complicated girth formula whereby he had to double the length by the smaller height after he triangulated the hypotenuse on the third side.”