Phialai of similar size would be divided into convenient beamfuls or weighing-lots.

If Mr. [Thomas] Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. […] [T]he re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.

Several senior railway engineers reached the IMechE pinnacle of being appointed president: … and Oliver Bulleid (1947).

They well knew that his unalterable rule in public life was “never commit thineself, lest it be your undoing.”