If the universe be regarded as self-existing, then men might hold to evolution, which is distinctly non-theistic, if not atheistic, not requiring a God for the reason that it is founded on the assumption that the possibility and potency and promise of all things reside in matter as matter.

to drape a bust, a building, etc.

[S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.

How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?