A fresh chicken cut up, mind; none of your week-old, cooked stales.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
I begs, borrers, an' stales, an' I reached that ship wan minnit before she sailed.
"The Right of Way, Volume 5."
Gilbert Parker
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in general Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent stales may of right do.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews