He held on with an iron grip.

Here were the tall white houses, with many windows and red roofs, the narrow streets and ample squares, the rude paving, the huge arched entrances into huge heavy quadrangular courts, the churches and the cathedral, with tall towers, capped with small Turkish domes, their doors thrown open, and mass celebrating; the pealing of the organ, and the odor of incense; a misericordia, or religious hospital, at your elbow, and an old gray convent perched on the hill above you;–all was just as it might have been in almost any Catholic country on the continent of Europe.

I worked beside those young people and mudded out a small African-American church and helped to replace dry wall.

I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.