After the flood, the resulting epidemics killed even more.

The actual condition of the range country to-day is far better than is generally believed to be the case, even among rangemen themselves.

Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.

James Fenimore Cooper draws a broad contrast between, on the one hand, mensurational principles associated with thenatural world" and, on the other hand, those associated with the artificial affairs of human endeavor.