..to the question, whether at the human death there is an end of the corporization of the soul, whether it does lose all hold upon matter and body...

to erode a person's trust

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.