My sickness was gone like a flash; I seized the oar, made a footspur of Don Sly's back, and, all pulling steadily, we held our our own till the squall spent itself and then we shot out of the ground swell, and headed across the bay.

With the conquest of Sogdiana by the Türk armies against the Hephtalites, in 560, a genuine Sogdo-Türk fusion was created. Numerous examples attest to this. Thus, Čakin Čur-Bil’ga, one of the kings of Panjikent at the end of the 7th century, was a Türk, and his successor Dēwāštīč, though bearing an Iranian name, was himself of Türk descent, according to his genealogy as related in the History of Nïshapur. And again, the only Sogdian contract of marriage which has been preserved united a Türk and a noble Sogdian woman.

Similar to these were songs with nostalgic texts about longing for the Old Country.

Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.