‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’

The inmate doctor wired him up on the Tucker Telephone with one wire to his penis and another to his big toe.

[yet] to the Jews, who roundly deny this exposition, and to the Arians, who accept it (and yet call Christ a creature, as forecreated for an assistant in this second creation); […]

The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.