It took Harriet a full month or more each spring to put her house in order. Washing windows, arranging drawers, sweeping, and dusting were relatively simple tasks, amounting to two or three days' work in each room. It was the carpets that constituted the major chore.

His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”

They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.

She ran into the house and returned with bandages; and while she bathed and dressed the wound Lassiter talked.