CHUBUKOV. Oh, don't go round and round it, darling! Spit it out! Well? LOMOV. One moment ... this very minute. The fact is, I've come to ask the hand of your daughter, Natalya Stepanovna, in marriage.

Public transportation is virtually inaccessible in this country; likewise, its hospitals are also not very user-friendly.

After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.

“You like nonveg?” he probed, extending the coffee cup to her. “I'm a born nonveg.”