The essential fundamental components of vegetables and animals are always found to possess the power of acting on polarized light.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
129 we suppose A and B to be the two components of a double star, each moving in its own orbit about their common center of gravity, C, whose distance from the earth is several million times greater than the distance between the stars themselves.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Note, too, the components of that legal dinner.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald