What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!

He was one of those men, said Isabella, who have no separate existence from their tailor, unless, indeed, a portion be claimed by the glover and bootmaker. I should as soon think of marrying a suit of clothes.

The diagnostic marks of alkaline excess are asthenicity and aplasticity, while the signs of acid diathesis (except the phosphoric) are sthenicity and plasticity;[…]Aplasticity and asthenicity show a deficiency of acid or an excess of alkalies in the system;

You could see where your money was, if you owned a house; it was safe, safe as houses, the very phrase, and you couldn't say safer than that unless you brought in the Bank of England which was too big altogether for the local men and their well-warmed nest eggs