Rosa smiled sarcastically; she thought he was at his wit's end.
Not quite: he was cudgelling his brains in search of some horribly unscientific argument, that might prevail; for he felt science would fall dead upon so fair an antagonist.

At last his eye kindled; he had hit on an argument unscientific enough for anybody, he thought.

Said he, ingratiatingly, "You believe the Old Testament ?" "Of course I do, every syllable." "And the lessons it teaches ?" "Certainly!" "Then let me tell you a story from that book.

A Syrian general had a terrible disease.

He consulted Elisha by deputy.