The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)

… they have to advance the lower stulm on each side of the tunnel … the advancement of the stulm, … it must be finished, including the graveling.

To a lad of my age, the idea of a woman of thirty was connected with nothing but associations of far-advanced old maidenhood or very ripe matronism […]

Sea-king's daughter from over the sea, / Alexandra! / Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, / But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, / Alexandra!