You can sterilize a needle by holding it in a ___________.

I do not mean to insult the reader by pretending that I killed, for instance, a regiment of cavalry or swallowed a battery of guns, —such _______ tales would disgrace both the hearer and the teller.

Hermindhadbeen__________intosuchaconditionasshecouldnotverylikelyhaveimaginedpossibleafewmonthssince.

“Human capital”is used primarily to ______ human beings whose only purpose is to generate wealth for the upper class elite.

Those who knew her ladyship are ________ that she was a person quite capable of performing this feat, had she not wisely kept out of the way.