There is no other country where such vulgar and heartless curiosity, and even ridicule, is bestowed upon grotesque or unsightly types of humanity, as in America.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The chief’s wife then bade us go out upon the yard, and told us that the physicians were going to put marks on our faces.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton
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