Since civil disobedients act conscientiously, Cohen believes that “extra-long prison terms will not make better men of these disobedients, nor much deter others of similar conviction.”

… here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter …

Conan, dispossessed of his throne and dead (or believed so) had in fact all the qualities of the Danish ghostking.

In the latter country it is mostly black and known as Whitby jet, while in Corea and Japan it is red in color and opaque.