North Atlantican Arctic

The conceivability of this machine, that we might call the Universal Sorter, indicates that in principle any mass noun can be used as a count noun. Of course, it is true that a mass noun like 'wine' undergoes a shift in meaning when used as a count noun...

my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses

He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.