You will receive half a boule of brown bread every day."
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

Every bit of broken barn, every dug-out and trench, was a mark for the enemy's artillery.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

But in every case, whether stability is obtained by great breadth or beam , by extreme depth from deck to keel, by ballast inside or outside, by fin-keel or otherwise, you should remember that the further under water the ballast is placed the less will be required .
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill