‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’

Since everything, therefore, depends on the groom’s cattlewealth (meaning by this both the animals he actually possesses and those he can obtain from relatives and friends), it follows that actual bridewealth payments vary in amount.

She is going to dig into Egyptian basket-weaving this semester.

It sat on the bluffs of the Susquehanna, where I discovered the hunger stones, which in most years were covered by the river and could be seen only during drought years.