At present the commerce of Montreal is principally confined to the fur trade, and collateral relations, under the direction of a company of wealthy, independent, enterprising merchants, whose immense capital and judicious arrangements have set at defiance every kind of competition.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Careful Supervision The officers, who have treated you courteously, in strong contrast to the steamship and dock employees, keep track of you until you are safely on board an immigrant car, bound for the place where your relatives are.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

That such a danger existed Kurt was convinced by the behaviour of the country-people in all directions.
— from Castle Hohenwald: A Romance by Adolf Streckfuss

Quite recently there has been on exhibition at Goupil's gallery a remarkable picture by the French artist Jean Léon Gérôme, entitled L'Almée , which {284} may be thus briefly described: Scene, a dilapidated Egyptian Khan or coffee shop; in the foreground and centre of the picture a Ghawazee, or dancing girl, performing a striking but immodest dance, which consists wholly of movements of the body from the hips, the legs remaining stationary; a group of fierce looking and fantastically bedizened Bashi-Bazouks, sitting cross-legged on a divan, spectators of the performance; and in the background some musicians and an attendant or two.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

For his ambition was to study and draw every kind of bird which lived in America.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson