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porch and raise Ned generally
Still he didn't stay home nights, and once or twice a year—say, election or Fourth of July—he and a lot of other young fellows would go out and tip over all the board sidewalks in town, and paint funny signs on the store buildings and stack beer bottles on the preacher's front porch, and raise Ned generally.
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

presented are really no guide
Figures such as we have presented are really no guide to the worth of an individual library, or of a library system, to the people.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

poetry and romance nothing gives
They hated literature, poetry, and romance; nothing gives them pleasure that does not give others pain; utilitarianism means prosaic, hard-hearted, narrow-minded dogmatism.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

production and refining natural gas
cessing Norfolk Island tourism Northern Mariana Islands tourism, construction, garments, handicrafts Norway petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing Oman crude oil production and refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper Pakistan textiles, and apparel, food processing, beverages, construction materials, paper products, fertilizer, shrimp Palau tourism, craft items (from shell, wood, pearls), construction, garment making Panama construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling Papua New Guinea copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production; construction, tourism Paraguay sugar, cement, textiles, beverages, wood products Peru mining of metals, petroleum, fishing, textiles, clothing, food processing, cement, auto assembly, steel, shipbuilding, metal fabrication Philippines textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood products, food processing, electronics assembly, petroleum refining, fishing Pitcairn Islands postage stamps, handicrafts Poland machine building, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles Portugal textiles and footwear; wood pulp, paper, and cork; metalworking; oil refining; chemicals; fish canning; wine; tourism Puerto Rico pharmaceuticals, electronics, apparel, food products; tourism Qatar crude oil production and refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement Reunion sugar, rum, cigarettes, handicraft items, flower oil extraction Romania textiles and footwear, light machinery and auto assembly, mining, timber, construction materials, metallurgy, chemicals, food processing, petroleum refining Russia complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts Rwanda cement, agricultural products, small-scale beverages, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes Saint Helena construction, crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fishing Saint Kitts and Nevis sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing, footwear, beverages Saint Lucia clothing, assembly of electronic components, beverages, corrugated cardboard boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing Saint Pierre and Miquelon fish processing and supply base for fishing fleets; tourism Saint Vincent and the Grenadines food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch Samoa food processing, building materials, auto parts San Marino tourism, banking, textiles, electronics, ceramics, cement, wine Sao Tome and Principe light construction, textiles, soap, beer; fish processing; timber Saudi Arabia crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic petrochemicals, cement, construction, fertilizer, plastics Senegal agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, fertilizer production, petroleum refining, construction materials Serbia and Montenegro machine building (aircraft, trucks, and automobiles; tanks and weapons; electrical equipment; agricultural machinery); metallurgy (steel, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, antimony, bismuth, cadmium); mining (coal, bauxite, nonferrous ore, iron ore, limestone); consumer goods (textiles, footwear, foodstuffs, appliances); electronics, petroleum products, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals Seychelles fishing; tourism; processing of coconuts and vanilla, coir (coconut fiber) rope, boat building, printing, furniture; beverages Sierra Leone mining (diamonds); small-scale manufacturing (beverages, textiles, cigarettes, footwear); petroleum refining Singapore electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade, biotechnology Slovakia metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity, gas, coke, oil, nuclear fuel; chemicals and manmade fibers; machinery; paper and printing; earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and optical apparatus; rubber products Slovenia ferrous metallurgy and aluminum products, lead and zinc smelting, electronics (including military electronics), trucks, electric power equipment, wood products, textiles, chemicals, machine tools Solomon Islands fish (tuna), mining, timber Somalia a few light industries, including sugar refining, textiles, petroleum refining (mostly shut down), wireless communication South Africa mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs Spain textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism Sri Lanka rubber processing, tea, coconuts, and other agricultural commodities; clothing, cement, petroleum refining, textiles, tobacco Sudan oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments, automobile/light truck assembly
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

production and refining natural gas
Industries: crude oil production and refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper Industrial production growth rate: 4% (2000 est.)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

pinto apparently requiring no guiding
A cowboy, looking for all the world as if he belonged in a wonderful tale of old-time west came racing after the truant, his pinto apparently requiring no guiding, and his hands busy with a long rope which was singing over his head.
— from Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

protection and relief not granted
Additional local protection Canadian copyright also affords additional protection and relief not granted by Imperial copyright, by provisions (1) that the importation into Canada of foreign reprints of Canadian copyright works is prohibited, and (2) that every person who knowingly prints, publishes, sells, or exposes for sale any piratical copy of a copyright work shall forfeit every such copy to the copyright owner and shall pay for every such copy found in his possession, printed, published or exposed for sale by him not more than one dollar and not less than ten cents, one half of which shall belong to the copyright owner.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

production and refining natural gas
Industries: crude oil production and refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper Industrial production growth rate: 3% (1994 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

people and respectable newspapers greeted
But it is not unfair to say that the great majority of the decent people and respectable newspapers greeted the verdict with acclamation.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers


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