Superadded to this, is the fact, that at that point the belt of rains precipitates feebly because the S. E. trade originates upon the southern part of the continent of Africa, and the N. E. mainly, upon the desert and the Barbary States—and both are sparingly supplied with moisture.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

Young Lucretia had scant encouragement to open upon the subject in her mind, but she did.
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The Corporation’s management has always shown its realization of the fact that “not by bread alone does man live”; that the mere paying of employees a living wage is not sufficient, and that even the least educated worker has an aesthetic sense, even though often uncultivated, that should be developed and pandered to within reasonable limits if the best good of the worker and the employer is to be achieved.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter