The tabletop is made of glass.

The public speaker of today who gets nearest his audience is one who has something to say and who says it without ebullition, without varnishment, without rhapsodic figures of speech, without flower and embellishment.

an unascended mountain

Besides, it was getting cold. They say that the oreibasia took place in midwinter, but I daresay the Peloponnesus is considerably milder that time of year than Vermont.