Since the above was written, I find that the hemigynous insects require a more careful examination than I had found leisure to bestow on them, […]

He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.

Diègue tries to treat Gormas amicably as his prospective co-father-in-law, but Gormas provokes him with rude remarks and slaps him

Because a ton weight of iron let fall, for instance, from a mile high, would, according to their theory, have to be carried on by the Earth's attraction at the extravagant rate of 1,133 miles a minute, besides partaking of the axical turning of the Earth, to fall upon the spot it was immediately over; which is impossible to be conceived that the Earth has such discriminating attraction: nay, independently of axical motion, -- as the globe is stated to fly faster than a ton weight could possibly fall, it is evident, that it would never drop upon the spot it was let fall over, but would according to the quicker rate of the Earth's flying than of the body's fallling, be left behind.