A stoney Mass, grey, with a Cast of purple; having in it Spar purple and grey, Specks of a black Mineral, and some small Sparks of Lead-Ore.

States that fail to sufficiently attend to the imagined attributes of statehood required by the international system risk being deemed nonstates by the international community...

A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.

Uncritical reading and inappropriate intellectual endeavor were frequently satirized in the form of a naive or Quixotic lady.