| 1 | Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty. | |
| 2 | Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. | |
| 3 | The rich bottom land near the river was studded with tall sycamores, birches, and box elders. | |
| 4 | The photograph was made using a camera obscura and a sheet of pewter coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt that when exposed to light, hardened permanently. | |
| 5 | The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood. |