`The Times,' Dec. 28: "The principal open-air labour of the sugar plantations is furnished by kanakas, who are the native inhabitants of certain groups of South Sea Islands not at present under the protection of any European flag."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

If Mr. Jones is ill everybody knows that Mrs. Jones cannot go out, so she is not expected.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

Many exhibitors pretend that they use no dressing, or very little, and this only occasionally, for the jackets of their Yorkshire Terriers; but it is quite certain that continuous use of grease of some sort is not only advisable but even necessary.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

But the fruit which Cieza de Leon here mistakes for the guanavana or sour sop is, no doubt, the delicious chirimoya ( Anona cherimolia Mill.)
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

The individuals that have been thus circumstanced are males; whether the female is guilty of similar spoliations is not known.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

The teacher then looks around the room, and selecting some intelligent boy who has influence among his companions, and whose influence he is particularly desirous of enlisting on the side of good order, says, "Shall I nominate some one to keep an account of this plan?"
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott