The radiator bubbled and hissed steam.

It's almost noon. Arko left the area and entered the forest to hunt with the rest of the wolves. The area seemed pretty dead. Many leaveless trees. No bird chirping or leaves chattering. Arko was worried that they were going to fail the mission.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.