Had I been her husband or her son she could not have exhibited a deeper concern at my departure; her tenderness touched me to the heart.
— from Self-Doomed: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The conventions [pg 336] by which the latter were established occurred during long periods, when the tribes forming them were so separated as to have established altogether diverse customs and mythologies, and when the several tribes were with such different environment as to have formed varying conceptions needing appropriate sign expression.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery