[T]he equating of the female genitalia with a wound caused by an axe is a very off-colour metaphor.

[…]shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength

their Spring or endeavour outward will be augmented, that is , those Zones will have a strong nitency to flie wider

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.