The mountains approach nearer to each other, and are, for some distance, so close to the river as scarcely to leave room for even a villaget.

On your better days, you are but a doodlebrain.

Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.

a dull and low terrenity