The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another n added to make it look more like a name , she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond.
The preposition faafi has a fairly wide range of uses. Most of these fall into three broad categories. The broadest of these is a locative one, where faafi is used with a superessive significance, with or without contact: 'on (top of)', 'on the surface of', 'over', 'above'. In the superessive contact meaning faafi usually implies the presence of weight, pressure, force exerted by the upper on the lower one, or some other kind of effect.
On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
In the Wieling the fore-flood runs in-shore in a southerly direction, as the finished ebb bends round against the sun ; and is, at times, so strong, that ships coming in, close- hauled on the larboard tack, are frequently obliged to anchor on account of it, until the stream runs inward in the direction of the channel, which, as before stated, takes place much earlier than at sea.
