Mr James M'Kenzie Davidson, M.B., C.M., with the assistance of Processor Alex. Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a lithophone, and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.

The depths of his drinking were achieved after Jane left him, but the bathysphere was well on its way down while she was still there. The low point of his catabasis took time to reach, but the steadily descending trajectory is hard to miss.

...down, down, sinking down faster than she's so far moved, the dick head exploding up into all that wet, warm slime...

Sweet alyssum seedlings are particularly prone to damping off, so do not overmoisten the soil.