The greater portion of the nest was composed of dead leaves bound together firmly by fine brown roots; inside the leaves was just a lining of rather coarser brown roots, and again an inner lining of black horsehair-like roots and fine steins of the maiden-hair fern.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
They clattered their steins on the table and sang wonderful Jena songs, while Stephen was lifted up and his soul carried off to far-away Saxony,-to the clean little University town with its towers and crooked streets.
"The Crisis, Volume 4"
Winston Churchill
The steins now inhabit a great house on Fifth Avenue that used to belong to people of a very different sort.
"Youth and the Bright Medusa"
Willa Cather