The Scotch or German element no doubt fuses and mixes with ours much more readily than the purely British.
— from Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs

Many of these were, of course, useless, but one led to another introduction to two excellent Scotch farmers, who, when the time came to make choice of a farm, kindly did for us the work which the Government expert now does for immigrants going to Nova Scotia.
— from Canada and the British immigrant by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver

Though our ordinary history books tell us nothing more of English voyages until we come to the days of the great Elizabethan navigators, Drake, Frobisher, Hawkins, and to the planting of Virginia, as a matter of fact many voyages were made under Henry VII and Henry VIII.
— from The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock

It is the same difficulty which is looming large in modern World-politics, where the local selfishness and vainglorious "patriotisms" of the Nations are sadly impeding and obstructing the development of that sense of Internationalism and Brotherhood which is the clearly indicated form of the future, and which alone can give each nation deliverance from fear, and a promise of growth, and the confident assurance of power.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

There have been sundry flasks of eau de vie on top, and the gentlemen evince no desire for the milder fluid, quaffed by the ladies with such avidity.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"Good enough, perhaps, for beggars, signore, and good enough, no doubt, for Nicolletti.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith