The ether. The earth browses upon a circular path in the fields of space, and as it moves the ether is continually pouring through it and providing its vitality.

When these two rookies eventually came under fire he wondered which one would fill his pants first.

[I]t muſt be obſerved that both vegetable and animal ſubſtances become bleached white by the ſun-beams when they are dead, as cabbage-ſtalks, bones, ivory, tallow, bees-wax, linen and cotton cloth; and hence I ſuppoſe the copper-coloured natives of ſunny countries might become etiolated or blanched by being kept from their infancy in the dark, or removed for a few generations to more northerly climates.

Since antiquity, Jewish tradition has softened the image by interpreting the word [zonah] as innkeeper, one who provides food (/zun/). There is no reason, however, to doubt the ascription of harlotry.