I know what's inside the battleworks, she said. The biggest, harshest weapons in existence, I know. ...

A bank building having several stories of offices above the ground floor used for banking purposes was considered as offering too many facilities to burglars, and lofty buildings in general were stigmatised as “New Yorkian,” and therefore abhorred of all true Philadelphians.

[…] his own tone and rhetoric might have been part of the reason for the outbreak of knuckleheadery and half-cockedness in the first place.

a sanguine bodily temperament