He said he did not think she did; that he did not tell her, and she talked about nothing except her Christmas-tree and the people she wanted to see.
— from The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page

For the first year of the war the Continental Congress was unwilling to take so belligerent a step as to encourage privateering; but, in the summer of 1776, the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal was begun, and in a short time all New England had gone to privateering.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot