As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love—and women.

The speed and her heavy pack threatened her balance, but she caught herself before succumbing to an embarrassing nose-first topple to the earth.

I presume the author means by 'after vaccination,' what I should express by after insertion of vacciolous matter, or after the attempt to vacciolate; and yet, when he mentions that zealots on one side have called the eruptions after it by one name, and those on the other by another; I am at a loss to comprehend him; because, if it were only after the attempt, the advocates of vacciolation would have no cause of surprize or disappointment in finding small-pox; the opponents no triumph.

As an adult and the wife of the minister, I was always armed with vials of smelling salts, furnished by funeral directors, for fainters at church funerals.