The second example is found among the savages upon the African coast of Angola, where there is no real money known. The inhabitants there reckon by macoutes; and in some places this denomination is subdivided into decimals, called pieces. One macoute is equal to ten pieces. This is just a scale of equal parts for estimating the trucks they make.

Training in judgecraft is limited, when one would have expected it to be compulsory and a prerequisite.

The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.