borrowed hair

The limpid glass doors reveal the living room clearly from the dining room.

[W]e have been obliged to hire Troops from ſeveral Princes of the Empire, whoſe Ministers and Reſidents here, have perpetually importuned the Court with unreaſonable Demands, under which our late Miniſters thought fit to be Paſſive.

A 'tweaker' being a very small screwdriver. I first met that term in 1955. We called them 7-Levels in ADC. Why? A 5-level is a term for a journeyman technician (3-Levels are trainees), and a 7-level was management-expert technician. I'm not sure of the history, but it went something like the only difference between a 5-level and a 7-level was the size of his screwdriver.