It was churning day, and there was baking to be done, and the mending was behindhand, and the children needed clothes […]

Printed programs for solemn events such as church services, commencements, funerals and memorial services, dedications, and awardings of social recognition of one sort or another often list genres of talk […]

Alexandre: "You cannot sort their problems. It's not your job or within your gift, and we want to hand them to their support. Your role is to have a short conversation to make them feel non-suicidal, to get them to a safe place from where they can be given further help.

Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy”. “Lithe” is the same as “active”. You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.