The lunar cycle among the Chaldeans was called the saros and sara, from סהרא, sahara, the moon. This cycle it is said contained two hundred and twenty-three synodical months, or eighteen Julian years, ten days, when the same cycle or period contains five leap days, and eleven days when it contains four leap days, seven hours, forty-eight minutes, and one-fourth; in which time all the corresponding new and full moons and eclipses return again.

Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf.

They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.

Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness.