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• The females have relatively large tusks, which are essential in obtaining their food.

• It is curious, however, to find that an ancient nation of the East, so wise in geometrical proportions, should have followed what by modern experience may be regarded as an inverse method, that of obtaining a unit of length by deducing it through weights and cubic measure, rather than by deriving cubic measure through the unit of length.

• At the close of her life she had some success in obtaining payment of her jointure.

• The Viennese have been particularly successful, and their method has been to dye the skins a good brown and then not put in the dark stripes, which exist in sable and mink, until the garment or article is finished, thus obtaining as perfectly symmetrical effects as if the articles were made of small skins instead of large ones.

• He is known to have paid a visit to France, with the purpose of obtaining aid for his country from the French king.