Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.

You're making me want to see hetsmut between these two. Damn you!

On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.

After the war, black women continued to labor as “rehandlers,” sorting, stripping, stemming, and hanging tobacco leaves—all part of the redrying process.