We have poor TV reception in the valley.

We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens clacking and scratching away […]

The argument tended thither.

One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.