[…] while our poetry rollicked in mouthable lines that, like the face of Helen 'launched a thousand ships […]

In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, projecting with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.

[T]he ten thousand Judiths press up, resistless; with obtestations, with outspread hands,—merely to speak to the Mayor.

The complete or the lesser rijsttafel? I bet they're both huge, […]