Ma'anar ƙamus na kalmar "matsayi" ƙunƙunciyar sashe ce ta ruwa da ke haɗa manyan ruwa biyu, sau da yawa tsakanin talakawan ƙasa biyu. Hakanan yana iya komawa ga yanayi mai wuya ko ƙunci, kamar a cikin "kasancewa cikin mawuyacin halin kuɗi."
But, this accomplished, which he fancied was all he had to do to get out of this terrible strait and embarrassment, another still greater difficulty presented itself, for it seemed to him impossible to relieve himself without making some noise, and he ground his teeth and squeezed his shoulders together, holding his breath as much as he could but in spite of his precautions he was unlucky enough after all to make a little noise, very different from that which was causing him so much fear.
We landed at a small port town called Xamoschi, situated on the southeast part of Japan the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into a long arm of the sea, upon the northwest part of which Yedo, the metropolis, stands.
During the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th October, the Rangoon entered the Strait of Malacca, which separates the peninsula of that name from Sumatra.
It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his countrymen were reduced.
IF KOIOS HAD PASSED into Kimmeria, he might have either crossed the western strait into Phlegra or skirted the southern shore of the Axeinos Sea through Phrygia.
The following night they passed through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, which means in Arabic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal.
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
The San Juans are north of Puget Sound across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which in some places formed the maritime boundary between the United States and Canada back when national borders had meaning.
No doubt it would have been better but I should not be avenged, nor the honour of my husband vindicated, should he find so clear and easy an escape from the strait into which his depravity has led him.
Sancho did so, and, bidding them farewell, allowed his eyes to be bandaged, but immediately afterwards uncovered them again, and looking tenderly and tearfully on those in the garden, bade them help him in his present strait with plenty of Paternosters and Ave Marias, that God might provide someone to say as many for them, whenever they found themselves in a similar emergency.
