Jewel's eyes look like pale wood in his high-blooded face. He is a head taller than any of the rest of us, always was. I told them that's why ma always whipped him and petted him more. Because he was peakling around the house more.

They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.

a funeral oration; an impassioned oration; to make / deliver / pronounce an oration

Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.