Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush!

My parents are Orthodox Jews. To them, intermarriage is considered a shanda.

After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place at Stoke Newington

Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.