sufa

They never consummate their attraction, yet their love is “more clinging, more endearing, more reverent” than romantic or even filial devotion.51 They speak to each other in an esoteric, but mutually understandable language of dreams: “quite atreous,” and “Rax oha tal,” and “sufa.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

They never consummate their attraction, yet their love is “more clinging, more endearing, more reverent” than romantic or even filial devotion.51 They speak to each other in an esoteric, but mutually understandable language of dreams: “quite atreous,” and “Rax oha tal,” and “sufa.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He often stays up all night and then lies down fully clothed "-- on the sufa --" on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world. "

Karl Marx: A Life 2000