they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…]

After the gale, the tree has had sufficient vitality to continue its growth, and so enfold its crippled stem in a new sheath of sound wood. Fig. 10 represents decayed or “druxy” knots. Sometimes such knots are met with embedded in fairly sound wood, but in most cases, the effects of the decay run far down into the parent stem.

The piano was not simply out of tune, but had become downright tinny.

I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.