The abandonment of a mother tongue leads to language death, and eventually to de-ethnicization, assimilation and gradual extinction of an ethnic entity […]

The Native had previously packed[…] an unusual quantity of carpet-bags and small portmanteaus[…]: and having filled his own pockets with Seltzer water, East India sherry, sandwiches, shawls, telescopes, maps, and newspapers, any or all of which light baggage the Major might require at any instant of the journey, he announced that everything was ready.

Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

Huddled in one corner was a fat old woman in a stained wadmol dress, fast asleep.