the Garrison was cut off by the Ambuscado, and Veltus seized on the Skonces, which was abandoned.

A handsome square-rigged fellow in a double-breasted blue uniform, not burnt, stood at her shoulder.

Doom-scrolling through morbid headlines in 2020, one could easily believe that we have lost our capacity for effective crisis response.

Based on distinctions by Philo (Alleg. Interp. 3.70 §§196–97), δόσις sometimes is seen as the act of giving and δώρημα as the thing given, but James may simply be using poecilonymy (a piling up of synonyms) to emphasize God's generosity, or he may be quoting an extant “saying” or expressing himself poetically.