the thorny tanglings of the wood

Yati feels she is lucky to get - and hold - a factory job, though it has earned her the title of Minah Karan.

I do hope to recover my late hurt.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? - Monty Python, Life of Brian