He was disarmed by the scenery (the countryside outside Guangzhou was a "marvellous field-garden") and disgusted by the squalor (the inhabitants of one town were "scrofulous, sore-eyed, and mangy").
That happened not long ago, when I spoke to Dr. James Levine, the leading researcher in the marvellous-sounding field of "inactivity studies," at the Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale, Arizona, campus, and the most prominent of walking-desk partisans.
The drive south follows the Ebro river, Spain's second-longest, through marvellous scenery to the endless rice fields of the Ebro delta.
I was driving towards Kranj, the capital of Gorenjska region in the Slovenian Alps, when I suddenly coughed a marvellous sight of haze game in the fields rushing by the car window.
Homer is full of marvellous images of armies as swarming bees, flattened fields of corn, waves that come in convoy.
Long-time leader Volume (9-1) was third as favourite Marvellous, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, finished down the field and was unable to complete a fillies' Classic double for trainer Aidan O'Brien.
At this time Leonardo wrote an often-quoted letter describing the many marvellous and diverse things that he could achieve in the field of engineering and informing Ludovico that he could also paint.
GALLERIES — CHELSEA SALLY GALL Like a kid daydreaming in a field of wildflowers, Gall, a photographer, portrays nature as a marvellous, private wonderland.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet GALLERIES — CHELSEA SALLY GALL Like a kid daydreaming in a field of wildflowers, Gall, a photographer, portrays nature as a marvellous, private wonderland.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
