The shells fell for the most part innocuous; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured.

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In every case the geographic name should be euphonious, and not too long, and where it has a meaning the idea conveyed should be pleasant and appropriate. To be most euphonious a name should consist of a regular succession of vowel and consonant or liquid sounds without redundancy or awkward combinations of either; the elemental sounds themselves should be euphonious, and in words of more than two syllables the accent, as a rule, should fall on the last syllable or the penult. […] Botanic and biologic terms from the Latin and Greek are almost always euphonious and may appropriately be used when not too long.

It was filled with a white powder which Canterel told us was a faithful reproduction of one of Paracelsus's famous placets, preparations devised for the purpose of obtaining certain kinds of opotherapeutic remedies by secretion.