[…] she elbowed the table and chinned her hand.

Crappo, or carapa (Carapa guianensis), 40 to 60 feet high and 1½ to 3 feet in diameter, grows plentifully in mixed forests. The reddish wood weighs 42 pounds per cubic foot, and is durable and easily worked.

All These would have been Blasts of Wind, bruta Fulmina, no more, if the King had yielded ...

Their Captain's announcement was listened to by the throng of standing sailors in a dumbness like that of a seated congregation of believers in hell listening to the clergyman's announcement of his Calvinistic text.