Throughout the whole of Soudan and the lower parts of Abyssinia the Scapulated Raven is found living in pairs, which rarely assemble in small parties, and appear to avoid mountain districts.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

In examining the vocabulary of colloquial Latin, we have noticed its comparative poverty, its need of certain words which are not required in formal Latin, its preference for certain prefixes and suffixes, and its willingness to violate certain rules, in forming compounds and word-groups, which the written language scrupulously observes.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

We have too much theory and too little real investigation in American ethnology, and while the men of hypotheses are talking about the origin of the Indians, and endeavoring to trace them to Asiatic stocks through the medium of language, the race is fast losing its purity by intermarriage, as it has already lost the most distinctive of its peculiarities by intercourse with the whites.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various