Religen, law, er politics, prize-fightin', er base-ball Jes' tetch Jap up a little and he'll post you 'bout 'em all.
— from A Spray of Kentucky Pine Placed at the Feet of the Dead Poet James Whitcomb Riley by Douglass Sherley
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— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters
'Pears like that mouth o' his'n wuz n't made fer nuthin' else But jes' to argify 'em down and gether in their pelts: He'll talk you down on tariff; er he'll talk you down on tax, And prove the pore man pays 'em all—and them's about the fac's!— Religen, law, er politics, prize-fightin', er base-ball— Jes' tetch Jap up a little
— from Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
The cases in which such lines can be profitably applied may be classed under two heads; the one, where, in a country possessing ports or a system of railways, large establishments, private, public, or industrial, might be connected therewith by a narrow gauge line so as to reduce the cost of transport below that which has to be paid for haulage by animal power on roads; the other, when no roads worthy of the name are available, and the choice is a light railway or nothing.
— from Minimum Gauge Railways by Heywood, Arthur Percival, Sir, bart.
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