The little instrument and methods wwhich I shall describe can be aplied in any of our American laboratories, either in the recumbent posture, which I believe is the most popular, or it can be used in the vertical position, because the instrument will give an accurate levelage of the skull in any position.

That is an ingenious model of the atom.

He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition

Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path.