sulfur yellow:

The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†).

the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

In Alabama, Fundagelicals - our modern day moral majoritarians calling themselves Citizens for a Positive Education, banned the use of a social studies textbook on the grounds that it failed to extol the virtues of capitalism […]