Such taxes, therefore, are really equivalent, they say, to a tax upon every particular commodity produced at home.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Alexander, Tice, and Jameson, had pitched their tents in a meadow close by some trees at the upper end of the encampment.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

So, the atom, the ulterior element of the Universe's structure, is tossed about in space, eternally, a play to external influences, like a boat in a troubled sea.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Dangeau took off his tri-coloured sash, borrowed a couple more, knotted them together, suspended them across the unbarred entrance, and, having requisitioned a chair, sat down on it, and awaited the arrival of the mob.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

Gradually all the land in the valley became his, except one tiny strip, there at the upper end, which belonged to a widow, poor as Fritz's mother once had been.
— from A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge

The peculiar feature of the construction is the presence of one , or two , or three bulbs , or cocoon shaped terminations at the upper ends of the two flutes.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

A special table at the upper end of the place was reserved for this purpose, and when a manager was sitting at that table with a playwright it meant business.
— from Dust of New York by Konrad Bercovici

All night long the engineers had been busy with pick and shovel, and even after the Prussians had opened fire they were still digging away at their shelter trenches and throwing up epaulments.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

[Footnote: 2 McMaster, 383] From Jefferson's election--he was a conservative free-thinker--they seemed to anticipate the utter extermination of Christianity, though the man paid in charities, mostly religious, as for Bibles, missionaries, chapels, meeting-houses, etc., one year of his presidency, $978.20; another year, $1,585.60.
— from History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

For some time they undertook no further voyages, and the two boys, who lived with Professor Henderson in a small town on the coast of Maine, were sent to attend the Universal Electrical and Chemical College.
— from Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood