We could no longer keep count in the family (when my great-aunt tried to frame an indictment of my grandmother) of all the armchairs she had presented to married couples, young and old, which on a first attempt to sit down upon them had at once collapsed beneath the weight of their recipient.
Izeba-amonak amonari errieta egin nahi zionean, ezin konta ahala ugari izaten ziren, amonak ezkonberriei nahiz ezkonzaharrei oparitan emandako besaulkiei buruz, hark egiten zizkiòn ahakarrak; izan ere, besaulkiok, berauez baliatzeko lehen saioan, bertan behera porroskatzen omen ziren opari-hartzailearen pisuari eutsi ezinda.