the city folk, if they cared to, could trace their ancestry back to the same kind of village that they were now returning to for their summerings.

From a family of French West African descent, Albert Dutrieuille was the last of the great African-American caterers in Philadelphia.

a statute […] to size weights, and measures

The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded , at about the same time , their law of compensation or balancement of growth