on your mark (get on your lane/spot)

He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.

Tequesquite is a type of mineral salt that combines chloride and sodium carbonate. It forms in a thin, brittle gray crust over the land around the edges of the highland lakes in central Mexico, particularly around Texcoco and the salt meadows of Puebla.

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen cold Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you, Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;