This money of the Europeans may possibly furnish him with the means of a happy and peaceful subsistence in remoter regions; and he quits the plough, resumes his native arms, and returns to the wilderness forever.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

These facts indicate that the Arunta system is relatively recent, and has not yet overcome among the Kaitish the old rule of totemic exogamy.
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

He, however, seemed, after passing, to mend his licks so fast that I feared he would give trouble in despatching him, so I ran rapidly after him, he in the mean time having partially disappeared under the bank; and when within fifteen or twenty yards he turned at bay, facing me.
— from American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Boone and Crockett Club

But apart from such causes it seems to be a general—I will not say universal—law of social growth that an independent political community, even if originally the same in race, religion, and habits as its neighbours, tends to draw apart from them, and to form an individuality of its own, creating a national type and impressing that type upon its members.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

She had laughed at her own losses, had challenged Lavendale and Bolingbroke to the wildest wagers about the cards, had been the leading spirit in reckless revelry, and had exercised a fascination upon her lover which had made him forget everything but that beautiful creature, leaning over the table with round white arms glittering with diamonds, and the famous Topsparkle necklace flashing upon the loveliest, whitest neck in England, showing all the whiter against the lady's black velvet weeds.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[138] Charming Siddons has been silent ever since I refused running after her from Beaumaris to Liverpool, but such an expedition was more impracticable than she dreamt on.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

"Then why the deuce don't you stop it?" retorted Ronald, as he accepted this bacchanalian invitation, and they went down to the bar.
— from The Girl from Malta by Fergus Hume

"Oh! I begin to grasp what you mean now," the stranger in Riverport remarked, as he nodded his head.
— from Fred Fenton Marathon Runner: The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman

This money of the Europeans may possibly furnish him with the means of a happy and peaceful subsistence in remote regions; and he quits the plough, resumes his native arms, and returns to the wilderness for ever.{226} The condition of the Creeks and Cherokees, to which I have already alluded, sufficiently corroborates the truth of this deplorable picture.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

At my request, though only after some importunity, Rossetti read again his White Ship , and afterwards Rose Mary , the latter of which he told me had been written in the country shortly after the appearance of the first volume of poems.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir