It checked with the number of ships that came through to modernity.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
But in spite of his skill and his modernity, in our midst there persist those who, in a scientific night, would die rather than risk our advantages.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
The modernity of the place is, however, lost sight of annually in the "riding of the marches," a custom which prevails also in Selkirk and Langholm.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett