He showed me where his grandparents were buried, behind a wrought-iron fence in the church's plain but well-tended cemetery, and he removed his hat as we stood by their markers.
There was even a centuries-past charm about this lush plain littered with well tended grass huts.
The League's neutrality tended to manifest itself as indecision.
He wore a long, plain black cassock and the white collar, carefully-tended black dress shoes.
"For reasons of history, inertia, turf disputes and just plain greed," she writes, "government oversight of food safety has long tended to provide far more protection to food producers than to the public".
Just as the closely tended herds of cattle thrived on the same plains where the buffaloes perished, fish stand a better chance of surviving if they belong to someone instead of everyone.
Sitting now on lawns, amid well-tended flowerbeds and chattering picnickers, it is hard to imagine the British Army swarming onto this plain to attack the French, the smoke of gunfire forming a thick haze among the trees, the slashing of bayonets, and the screaming of the wounded.
My stepbrother tended bar for us.
The amorphous lamellae tended to disappear.
