All the while afraid of detection, every kind word spoken to her caused remorse, every joke pained her in secret.

It recalled what she had done to his companions, perhaps to him also.
The incantations of the chayani and the fasts of the Koshare seemed to have no effect whatever upon the course of the rain-clouds.

The heavens clouded regularly every day; they shed their moisture all around the Tyuonyi, but not a drop fell in the valley-gorge.

Now the three chief penitents of the tribe, the Hotshanyi, the shaykatze, and the uishtyaka, were called upon to use their means of intercession with Those Above.
They fasted, prayed, and made sacrifices alternately for an entire moon; still it rained not.

In New Mexico local droughts are sometimes very pertinacious.