The lawyer's habit of circumspection and delay
The long-delayed hour of retribution
The lowest grade of precarious mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness]
The makeshifts of mediocrity
The malarious air of after-dinner gossip
The mazes of conflicting testimony
The mean and frivolous affections of the idle
The menacing shadow of want
The mere fruit of his distempered imagination
The mere reversal of the wheel of fortune