We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms.

Pure lime is extremely refractory, but readily fusible if any silex is brought in contact with it; […]

I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence.

It is the illicit Christmas pudding an incorrigible servant cooks for the little boy one Christmas Day that sparks Oscar's first crisis of belief, for his father, opposed to Christmas pudding on theological grounds, makes the child vomit his helping.