The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.

It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?

A related marriage tradition is the sororate (Latin soror means “sister”), in which a man has the right to marry a (usually younger) sister of his deceased wife. In some societies, the sororate also applies to a man who has married a woman who is unable to bear children.