I didn’t hear you because I had the radio on.

a violin with gut strings

It's very possible, therefore, that future historians will consider these events to be mere episodes of a single massive upheaval -- the Hemoclysm, to give it a name (Greek for blood flood) -- which took the lives of some 155 million people.

Pishog: A mystic rite, by which one person is enabled to make a supernatural transfer of his neighbour's butter into his own churns.