The sea is calm and the rollers are breaking like the clock in the steeple of old Dan." "They will come back with the morning tide.

My husband told me that they will come back with the morning tide." "Perhaps they will come back with the evening tide.

It is better for us to think they will come back in the evening, so that our waiting will not be in vain.
"But I must build a fire in the stove." "When the men are away from home, one does not feel like starting a fire.

I never build a fire, even when I am awake; it seems to me that fire brings a storm.

It is better to be quiet and silent." "And listen to the wind?
No, that is terrible." "I love the fire.