For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

All she wanted to think about was what the stranger would say to her when she told him where to find the heron's nest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

But he did not want her to say. He took the thingsOlive carried and asked her to sit down.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Georgiana's past lovers used to say that the hand of a magical fairy had touched her face when she was born.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Shirley Griffith has more about Terri Lyne Carrington and plays music from her new album, "More to Say."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

It is safe to say there was no one there who had the same respect that Missus Sommers did for her surroundings.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Jeff went to Missus Trotter's hotel to pay her what she was owed, and to say goodbye.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

So he took his rope out though some say it was a huge rattlesnake and lassoed Sue to catch her and bring her down to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The movie called for her to say, "Some men are following me."

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Her new album, "More to Say,"

VOA: special.2009.10.02

They say a wife who refuses to marry her brother-in-law is trying to sabotage tradition.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Activists say the military is using Yettaw's intrusion to extend Suu Kyi's detention to keep her and her party, the National League for Democracy, from participating in elections in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Clinton is not visiting Pakistan on this trip to the region and administration officials say her India visit - spanning four days is intended to underscore a growing strategic relationship spawned by the two countries' landmark nuclear cooperation accord in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17