Till each like a golden image was pollen'd from head to feet, And each was as dry as a cricket, with thirst in the middleday heat.

The saying “every stick has two ends” is apropos here. Every situation has an upside and downside, and the bigger the stick, the bigger the ends.

To make himself more considerable, he struck in with the Jewish Converts, and made a bustle in that great controversie at Jerusalem, about Circumcision and the observation of the Law of Moses.

The patient showed classic prediabetic symptoms.