The truck rumbled over the rough road.

The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. Ah, Shrimp Boat, I exclaimed, what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!

to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest

The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?