...big cats and primates continued to be displayed in bathroomlike cages lined with tiles.

She wore a starched white affair on her head, had a wart on one cheek, and silver-rimmed spectacles hung on the tip of her nose.

From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.

I think, for instance, that it would be impossible for our people to imitate the example of our neighbors, the inhabitants of Maine, — so long and so lately a part of ourselves — where, in the year 1839, there was a general uprising of the whole population, and an appropriation, by an almost unanimous vote of the Legislature, of the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, for the forcible rescue of certain outlands, or outwastes, claimed by Great Britain;