He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.

At the January 16 meeting of the Railway Club, Mr. Charles E. Lee, Vice-President, read a paper entitled Class Distinction, in which he traced the very gradual development (at any rate, with main-line railways) of provision for lower-class passengers; the reduction in discrimination; and the preponderating position of the third class today.