For instance, the President of the Local Council could recite the whole of Zhukovski's LUDMILLA by heart, and give such an impressive rendering of the passage "The pine forest was asleep and the valley at rest" (as well as of the exclamation "Phew!") that one felt, as he did so, that the pine forest and the valley really WERE as he described them.
batengana zein besterengana hurbiltzen zen urrats labur eta lasterrez, edo, esan ohi denez, tipi-tapa, hala nola ibiltzen baitira beren takoi garaien gainean aguretxo modazaleak-hainbatek agure lizunak esaten dieten horiek alegia-damen atzetik agudo dabiltzanean. Tipi-tapa hurreratzen zen, bada, batengana zein besterengana;