The muscularity in his forearm was visible as he flexed his fingers.

He swore up and down that he hadn't taken the money.

The elderly man, who had necessarily unmouthed the dagger to achieve this articulateness, smiled disarmingly.

https://archive.org/stream/journalofscience1631unse#page/378/mode/1up page 378 The paper read was on The Electric Light applied to Lighthouse Illumination, by Mr. J[ames] N[icholas] Douglass, M. Inst. C.E. The author showed the progress of lighthouse luminaries from wood and coal fires to the introduction of tallow candles, fatty oils, mineral oils, coal gas, and electricity. […] https://archive.org/stream/journalofscience1631unse#page/381/mode/1up page 381 on more frequent occasions, when the oil luminary would be visible at about eight miles and a-half, the electric light would be visible at the full range of 17 miles.