Paprika, allspice, and urfa biber impart warmth and richness to meat dishes and soups, while cinnamon is added to sweet dishes, especially in eastern Turkey.

After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed Ouch, my arm smarts!

A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.

She was sitting at the parlour table with a small abacus in front of her. … Peter still recorded weights of fleeces and pounds of cabbages and bushels of grain by cutting notches in tally sticks, but Liza would translate them into figures on paper and have them totted up on the abacus the very same day.