[…] I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands.

Şanlıurfa was a hub for the barter of sheep and goats into and out of the Middle East; its famed isot pepper was an import from present-day Syria.

The gift of angpow was placed beside the basin. When my mum was walking out, the bomoh took the angpow and put in into his cloth bag.

Grimm's law