Energy doubtless is, but it is not possessed of somewhatness. The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.

I’m not a friend of cheap wine.

The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;

...the citizen, remembering with some resentment the airs of equality which Richie had assumed towards him in the commencement of the scene which had just taken place, could not forbear to retaliate, by congratulating him with an ironical smile on his favour at Court, and his improved grace in presenting a supplication. Never fash your beard about that. Master Greorge Heriot, said Richie, totally undismayed; but tell me when and where I am to sifflicate you for eight hundred pounds sterling, for which these jewels stood engaged?