The epistle is opened and read—with a little wonder, most probably not a little vexation, at its constrained style.

champion of the poor

Diamond is the hardest natural material.

An example is the golden buprestid (Buprestis aurulenta), a brilliant copper-colored beetle that bores into living pines, firs, Douglas-fir, spruces, and other conifers in the western mountains. Its pest rating is high.