Formerly they pulled out their beards, and every New Zealander of mark was tattooed; now they wear beards, and the young men are not tattooed.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

Of eight New Zealand officers seven are reported to have been hit, an even higher proportion than that which the same gallant race endured at the battle of Rhenoster Kop more than a year before.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

This plate of shell over the horny disc is so thin, that, as mentioned at the commencement, the colour of the ovaria is seen through; and until I reflected on the following considerations, I was much surprised how the instinct of the animal could so neatly guide it not to grind too deeply, and yet to grind till only a very thin plate of shell was left over its horny disc: these considerations are, that whatever thickness was first given to this plate of shell, when the animal was very young and first assumed its ultimate position, that thickness would in most cases be always retained, owing to the flatness of the disc, and to the membrane armed with triturating points protruding very slightly be [Pg 552] yond and above the horny disc, only just enough to wear away the surrounding shell to the thickness necessary to allow of the formation of each new zone of disc; as the disc itself is not armed, it subsequently has no power of wearing away the plate of shell above it.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

I will also exchange three stamps—the United States blue three-cent, issue of 1869; the red three-cent, issue of 1861; and one from either New Zealand or the East Indies, for one three-cornered Cape of Good Hope stamp; or one from New Brunswick or Newfoundland, issue of 1857 or 1860.
— from Harper's Young People, May 17, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Will ever New Zealand or Australian bard spring up to write of the pale primroses that in September commence to peep out from under the melting snows, and to make men look forward to the blazing heat and the long December days?
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir