The usual method of testing the respirableness of air suspected to be contaminated with carbon dioxide is to lower a lighted candle into it; if the candle goes out the atmosphere is poisonous; if it continues to burn, however, the air is not necessarily harmless, as a candle will burn in an atmosphere that is dangerous to life.

my younger sister , indeed , might have been married to a far greater fortune , had not the overthwartness of some neighbours interrupted it

He was not 'illegal,' as you ignorantly put it, Sireno. He was a truebred Church, but a wild young wastrel.

Dahl's Silver Cornet Band, augmented for the occasion to the grand total of fourteen pieces, discoursed sweet—well, discoursed music; let us not be too particular as to the quality of it.