Bantering about daily trivialities with neighbours and friends who come to visit as guests in the same tone, squinting eyes of everyone twinkles tacitly in the same slyness.
Often, it is only the estrangement of foreign tongues, with their many exotic and outlandish features, that brings home the wonder of languages design.
Relieve a friend's anxiety, " he said, with no change of his voice and tone, in which indifference, and even irony, was perceptible through the veil of courtesy and sympathy."