We went so far as to stop in a hotel on the way out of Speyer — to ask for directions — but the teenaged girl personing the desk there seemed to be such an idiot[…]

And, as the leading words of the passage upon which the allusion turns are comitantia and beneficium, we have no alternative but to take these to be expressions received amonst the Mithraicists—part, in fact, of their sacred terminology.

Having “secret notice,” the writer of “True Remembrances” declares of the above complains, he retired into Munster, intending to proceed to England, to justify himself; but was detained there for want of money by the breaking out of rebellion. This adversity befell him in the autumn of 1598.

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the cdr chain. That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.