... that white specks p'sage our felicity, blude ones misfortunes; that those in ye nail of ye thumb have significations of honour, those in ye forefinger of riches, and so respectively in other fingers (according to the planetical relations from whence they receive their names), as Tricassus hath taken up and Picciolus well rejecteth.

urban life

Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.

They can be changed in various ways; for instance, river water is more turbid than that of lakes, since rivers drain water from the land, ...