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Examples

• Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Mousterian Age implements, and all above it, are those of Neanderthal men or, possibly in the case of the rostro-carinates, of sub-men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By this national devotion to a single trade and its sub-division of labour, the successful production of complicated watches became great and their prices comparatively low. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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