Mexico

Examples

• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Russia and Mexico followed these in yield. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was in alliance with these that Cortez advanced over the mountains into the valley of Mexico, (1519)[397]. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• President Diaz, of Mexico, visited this country with Mrs. Diaz, a highly educated and beautiful woman. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru used the process of fixing two metals together by the action of heat, before making up. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ancient and isolated races of Mexico had also learned the art of spinning and weaving. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The kelps are abundant, covering thousands of square miles in the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Texas was originally a state belonging to the republic of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Finally Bazaine was withdrawn from Mexico by order of the French Government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were several officers among them whom I had known before, both at West Point and in Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Some years later he was informed that both his companions had gone to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and had died there of yellow fever. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As Manila fiber is at times adulterated with Sisal, so has the latter its adulterant in a plant called Istle, which grows in Mexico and has hitherto been chiefly used in brush making. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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