In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as a fictive force, principle, or magic power

The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.

We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte. Schmatte, along with merch for merchandise and matchy-matchy, as in That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy, is among the words I have picked up at Mlle [Madamoiselle].]