The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible.

[…] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal.

My wife is unavailable for three months, as she's doing time for fraud.

Among the institutions established according to fiscalism during the eighteenth century, we need to mention the life-term tax farming system (malikane sistemi), which had an impact on the entire economy, including industry.