he would gather his courage and set out between the columned arches to ask one of the unaccompanied women to partner him. More often than not, their answer was no.

The analysis of mineral bodies... refined by the application of acid and alkaline menstrua, by Margraaf, Bergman, Bayen, and Achard, received still greater improvements from the labours of Klaprothk, Vauquelin, and Hatchett.

Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.

an ultimate constituent of matter