They just grab some citizen and put him in a box until he is ready to do their dirty work for them.
— from Stop Look and Dig by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

The lighter vegetables such as lettuce, celery, spinach, cucumbers, and parsley have, in a previous chapter, been classed with the paper foods.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

Some compositions and processes have in a measure been successful.
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

By presenting his half of the “tessera” the stranger could always prove his identity and his claims to a hospitable reception by the family to which he came.
— from Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz August Gottfried Endell