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- She would be thinking that when you've married somebody else's husband, if you play on her pi-ana it ought to be a contrite hymn that starts, "Lord, my sins be as scarlet" or "Too shamed to lift my head, Lord, too stained to hope for Heaven."†
*pi = mathematics: an important constant representing the circumference of any circle divided by its diameter (about 3.14)
- Miss Love was still sittin' at the pi-ana waitin' for the next page number when he started his sermon.†
- I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation.†
- When I wanted to sing some barbershop harmony, she called it sacrilegious, bein' Sunday, but finely I got her goin' on the pi-ana and we had us a real good time.†
- We got a pi-ana.†
- You and me and her, we'd have sech a good time round thet pi-ana after dinner.†
- The pi-ana cinched it.†
- You miss thet collection plate goin' around, and Miss Effie Belle plowin' up and down the pi-ana?†
Definitions:
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(pi) mathematics: an important constant representing the circumference of any circle divided by its diameter (about 3.14)Pi is about 3.14, but is an irrational number; i.e., with infinite decimals providing a closer approximation.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)