medium

But even this would have availed little against a more deadly medium of death employed four days ago, which is generally but too fatal.”

“Do you know, my dear count,” she said, “that you are a very terrible reasoner, and that you look at the world through a somewhat distempered medium?

He came to renew the thanks of Madame Danglars which had been already conveyed to the count through the medium of a letter, signed “Baronne Danglars, née Hermine de Servieux.”

He commanded with it; it was the medium through which his thanks were conveyed.