I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself. The invalid complained of being covered with ashes; but he had a tiresome cough, and looked feverish and ill, so I did not rebuke his temper.
It is a simple, powerful illustration of an American workplace, boiling like a pot of tomato sauce, ready to spit hot rivulets of grievance at anyone who stirs it.
Imagine how discombobulated you'd probably feel doing all those twists and turns while your stomach is probably twisting and turning all in its own right.
We don't stir the tea like this, you go up and down and as well to make sure to not cling your teaspoon at the edges, to not make any noise and of course we don't lick the teaspoon.
He swam on for what felt like at least twenty minutes. He was passing over vast expanses of black mud now, which swirled murkily as he disturbed the water. Then, at long last, he heard a snatch of haunting mersong.
Well, check out these waves in Orange County, California, this naturally occurring phenomenon occurs when water is turned up, like these waves causing a chemical reaction in light emitting organisms, like algae blooms.
Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.