a sebaceous plant secretion

Ceraunoscopy uses patterns of lightning during a thunderstorm as a form of divination.

[…] this winter you must look as if you wouldn't dream of using anything more artificial than a smitch of powder.

I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.