The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.

The steep slate roofs were topped with bronze finials so tall and fanciful they looked like drops of liquid sliding down a thread.

Russell-Silver syndrome […] is characterised by IUGR, small triangular facies, hemihypertrophy, clinodactyly, occasionally macropenis with or without precocious puberty, and sometimes GH deficiency.

The grammar book was less than (that is, not at all) helpful.