The troll overfell him. A moment he lay under that mass and could not breathe.

Figure 5-19. Sun-Venus-Orbiter geometry illustrates how the periapsis moves around the planet during the Venusian sidereal year to sample day and night hemispheres. Because the planet rotates in a retrograde direction, it takes more than one Venusian sidereal year for periapsis to move over all longitudes of the planet (as explained in text).

Your tailor […] cabbages whole yards of cloth.

If he [the Hindu god Varuna] cannot be classed exclusively among the gods of the sky he nevertheless has qualities proper to the ouranian divinities. He is visva-darsata, everywhere visible, he separated the two worlds, the wind is his breath; …