Their way of living during late years has been altogether too slow, too dead-and-alive, too unlike the ways of their ancestors, when once at least in each year, every warrior returned to his lodge with scalp locks dangling at his belt.
— from Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

He had taken a critical survey of all, back and front, when he heard Robert Jones calling out to him from his own low doorway— 'Look you there now!
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.