[…] Iasius ('healer') is the physic finger; Idas ('he of Mount Ida' — Rhea's seat) is the oracular little finger.

Base mills and nonbase mills may, or may not, be under separate ownership. […] The price of a shipment originating at a nonbase mill contains a delivery charge which is usually greater or less than the actual cost of delivery.

Against all expectations, the accused managed to bring forth convincing evidence of his innocence.

Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.