The social barbecue is sometimes given at the expense of a single individual, but more commonly by a party of gentleman, who desire to gratify their friends and neighbors by a social entertainment.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

But the remark rankled and in the end set this and that motive to work in my mind until my brain and heart became fallow ground for the cultivation of another sort of relationship than that of city folk and native, buyer and seller, employer and employed, or even giver and receiver.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various