In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
Mansur Mirovalev (2022-01-11), “Can centuries-old clan rivalry explain the crisis in Kazakhstan?”, in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera, retrieved 2022-01-17: “But the cornerstone of Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet wealth is the hydrocarbons drilled in the stomping ground of the Younger, or Minor Zhuz in the country’s west, next to the Caspian Sea, one of the biggest sources of untapped hydrocarbons on Earth.”
Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder.
Put a lanyard onto the standing part of the mispinned shroud, just below the upper terminal.