On the other hand, Ride Cymbals are purchased either with big cups (for big band crashing and riding) or with small cups (for sustaining a ride beat) or even with a mini cup or no cup at all.

Good lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here.

Canton's phosphorus is made by calcining oyster-shells in the open fire for half an hour; after which, the whitest and largest pieces are selected, mixed with about one-third their weight of flowers of sulphur, pressed into a crucible with a closely-luted cover, and heated red hot for an hour.

a Solomonic language