1931, Joe Young (lyrics), Sam Stept (music), “Turn That Frown Upside Down, Smile at the Cock-eyed World”:

Big brother counterbalances his two siblings to the pound.

The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.

No longer is each utterance like a piece of driftwood the speaker fished from a streamful of treasures, something cast off in the beyond that had just then washed up onto the beaches of the mind.