Jeff Thompson can out-engineer any civil engineer that ever sighted through an aneroid, or a theodolite, or whatever they call it—he calls it sometimes one and sometimes the other just whichever levels off his sentence neatest, I reckon.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner
[91] There are a few extras, and the servants are civilised enough to expect small tips.
— from Across the Equator: A Holiday Trip in Java by Thomas H. Reid
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