Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

[…] a dumpoked Fowl, that is, boil'd with butter in any small Vessel, and stuft with Raisons and Almonds […]

The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine.

to use an animal cruelly