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• “Other than that I think that having at least a month worth of dried food stuffs is never a bad idea and making food out of real ingredients such as flour and vegetables is probably much better for your health than getting frozen pizza five nights a week.”

  The End-of-the-World Survival Kit

• “When my baggage shall come, I will pay them in stuffs or in gold and silver, as they will.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “So I fared forth and bought a fine and spacious mansion, whither she removed all the wealth she owned and what riches I had gained in stuffs and costly rarities.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The energy contained in the food-stuffs is made available by a biological oxidation”

  Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 - Presentation Speech

• “Many of the soldiers were absolutely without funds, but these two civilians extended them the assistance so sorely needed out of their own pockets, purchasing food-stuffs from the canteen, which they distributed together with other articles which were in urgent request, with every liberality.”

  Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben

• “The old wear plain stuffs and pale or dull colours.”

  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

• “Another trouble that results from this is, that the Indians, who are naturally prone to idleness, easily earn enough with which to pay the tribute and buy stuffs from the Chinese with which to clothe themselves, and so do not manufacture these.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “On this account a large quantity of silk and cotton stuffs is manufactured; and for the same reason the Irish manufacture of silk and wool, called tabinet, or poplin, is in high estimation.”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “They have beside ye town hall a hall distinct wch is the scaleing hall where their stuffs are all measured, and if they hold their breadths and Lengths they are scaled, but if they are deffective there is a fine Layd on ye owner and a private marke on ye stuff wch shews its defficiency.”

  Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary

• “˜substances,™ namely stuffs, such as water or gold; geometrical objects, such as lines, defined by the relative position of their parts; temporal wholes, such as a day and the hours that make it up.”

  Peter Abelard

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