The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.

This was blithe news; for really we were wearied with going about, and hearing yon Sicilians chatter in a tongue that was as unmeaning as a dog's youff.

It should be noted that while working with electrothermometers in the surface layer of glacial cover in the Antarctic, E. N. Tsikin and V. N. Bogosloyskii made use of observations made at four times, which gave sufficient information on the temperature conditions of ice.

vacci- + -cide → vaccicide