Satin headbands and lace-trimmed bonnets not having been invented in her day, Rachel Leah wore the stately knupf or turban on her shaven head.

On Sabbaths and holidays she went to the synagogue with a long, straight mantle hanging from neck to ankle; and she wore it with an air, on one sleeve only, the other dangling empty from her shoulder.
Hayyim begat Joseph, and Joseph begat Pinchus, my father.

It behooves me to consider the stuff I sprang from.
Joseph inherited the trade, good name, and meagre portion of his father, and maintained the family tradition of honesty and poverty unbroken to the day of his death.

For that matter, Yuchovitch never heard of any connection of the family, not even a doubtful cousin, who was not steeped to the earlocks in poverty.

But that was no distinction in Yuchovitch; the whole village was poor almost to beggary.
Joseph was an indifferent workman, an indifferent scholar, and an indifferent hasid.