“ Canadian Loyalty. —​A very extraordinary manifestation of feeling took place on Thursday night last in Toronto, at the closing meeting of the Sabbath School Convention.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

[Pg 93] He adjusted the straps of his heavy pack—the cause of his leaving his rifle behind—so that he could rid himself of it on the instant, if necessary, and he carried loose a very effective weapon, the new axe which he had just bought at the Settlement.
— from Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

At the least quibble, the least cloud that covers the heaven of the double life, one hears the fatal words: You bought me, I sold myself, arising from the depths of the troubled conscience like a voice evoked by some evil spirit.
— from The art of taking a wife by Paolo Mantegazza

The Quebec Act of 1774 granted them the whole of the French civil law, to the almost complete exclusion of the English common law, and virtually established in Canada the Church of the vanquished through legal enforcement of the obligation resting upon Catholics to pay tithes.
— from The 'Patriotes' of '37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by Alfred D. (Alfred Duclos) DeCelles

The fact was, the whole thing was extremely inconvenient to him: divorce, journeys to court, lawsuit, and various expenditures—he preferred to avoid them.
— from Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

When he had mounted high enough to be extending a hand for a hold on a crotch, Alice grasped his leg near the foot and pulled him down, despite his clinging and struggling, until his hands clawed in the soft earth at the tree's root, while she held his captive leg almost vertically erect.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

The Company leases a very extensive territory along the river banks and does a large trade in rubber and ivory, the Brazilian variety of the former growing here very well.
— from A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman