In the sports field, the nervous little boy who is drafted into the squad to make up a full team gets all “gabra” (or confused) when he receives the ball and “cocks up” the match resulting in his team’s defeat.

Well now, childie, said Jocunda, "you can sit here and weave your garlands, while I go and look after the conserves of raisins and citrons that Sister Cattarina is making.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

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