By diminishing the number of those small occupiers, therefore, the quantity of this sort of provisions, which is thus produced at little or no expense, must certainly have been a good deal diminished, and their price must consequently have been raised both sooner and faster than it would otherwise have risen.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

38 Sahuaro, 49 Salt, 161 - 169 , 178 Salton, 6 , 161 - 169 Saratoga Springs, 176 Scorpion, 65 , 66 Serra, Padre Junipero, 83 Side-winder, 60 Signal Mountain, 201 Silsbee, 230 Silver, 158 Smoke Creek Desert, 2 Snakeweed, 54 Soap plant, 50 Soda, 146 , 176 Spanish bayonet, 45 Submarine, 209 - 217 Sulphur, 157 , 178 Sutuma, 83 - 91 Tarantula, 1 , 64 [Pg 237] Temperature, 22 , 140 Thirst, tortures of, 18 , 172 Tin, 157 Tortoise, 64 , 65 Tourmaline, 159 Tufa, 157 Tuna, 53 Turquoise, 76 Volcanoes, 6 , 71 , 184 - 188 Walking Hills, 202 , 206 Water, 17 - 37 Water wells, 30 , 33 Well of the desert, 53 Yucca, 38 , 45 , 49 Yuma Indians, 75 Zinc, 157 Old Paths and Legends of New England With many Illustrations of Massachusetts Bay, Old Colony, Rhode Island, and the Providence Plantations, and the Fresh River of the Connecticut Valley
— from The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest by Arthur J. (Arthur Jerome) Burdick

Old paths and legends of New England .
— from Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

Declining oil production and lack of new exploration investment turned Indonesia into a net oil importer in 2004.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

After a detailed discussion by Hartson Brant of the properties and limitations of nuclear explosions, the conference agreed.
— from The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Katherine M. Abbott , Old Paths and Legends of New England (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), pp.
— from Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

This recommendation removed all objections to the regularity of the convention; and co-operated with the impressions made by the licentious and turbulent spirit which had lately endangered the peace and liberty of New England, to incline those states to favour the measure.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

But there he was, with the gateway between the lamps barred against him, ex-Member of Parliament for the Chelsea Districts, with five hundred pounds in his pocket, and little or nothing else that he could call his own.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope