With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow.

I'd like to set straight some misconceptions about recent events.

an irrecoverable debt

Later on Jerusalem would thread its enchantment and I would fall to its allure, but at first all I saw—despite the forest—was a dusty, ungreen, and unwatered land, the dry Judean hills stretching away toward the Dead Sea, whose dark dullness we could glimpse from viewpoints in the neighborhood.