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The Chinese do not decline their substantives, but they indicate the cases distinctly— A. By means of particles.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

When Anna knew how to read and understand about forty substantives, I taught her the manual alphabet, and from that moment I could test her knowledge with unfailing exactitude.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

To all verbs, then, from the AngloÐSaxon, to all based on the uncorrupted infinitival stems of Latin verbs of the first conjugation, and to all substantives, whencesoever sprung, we annex Ïable only.¸

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The same occurs in Mexican, and the chief termination of substantives, tli, is almost identical in sound with that in the Maipure.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

And my ponies were none the less fat and in good condition though they were fed on literature, had substantives for oats, adjectives for hay, and adverbs for straw.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile