[…] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal.

Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.

That girl is fabulously beautiful.

He is a trifle discouraged, but he perseveres.