The next writer to pen the pages of Israel’s history was the long-lived and notable Samuel, one of Israel’s greatest prophets and anointer of kings.

Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?

It had been as the murmurous consecration to follow the murmurous welcome; and even if it were but part of Aunt Maud's own spiritual ebriety—for the dear woman, one could see, was spiritually keeping the day—it served to Milly, then and afterwards, as a high-water mark of the imagination.

Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.