After secretly observing the unstudied grace of her movements, the most celebrated picture-maker of the province burned the implements of his craft, and began life anew as a trainer of performing elephants.
Ernest Brammah Smith
Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.
Ernest Brammah Smith
He is capable of any crime, from reviling the Classics to diverting water courses.
Ernest Brammah Smith
There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.
Ernest Brammah Smith
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
Ernest Brammah Smith
At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.
Ernest Brammah Smith
Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.
Ernest Brammah Smith
In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.
Ernest Brammah Smith
Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
Ernest Brammah Smith