Lightning completely debarked a large oak tree and set fire to a mattress of [an] adjacent home; […]

He studied the cold gray rips in the current and dismounted and loosed the girthstraps and undressed and stogged his boots in the legs of his trousers as he'd done before in that long ago […]

After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.

Some variants of the tale say that all the bogatyrs perished in the battle except Ilya of Murom, who, however, died after coming back as a winner.