But the chief work, according to Niebuhr, from which Ennius borrowed, was a romantic epopee, or chronicle, made up from these heroic ballads about the end of the fourth century of Rome, commencing with the accession of Tarquinius Priscus, and ending with the battle of Regillus.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

Dark hair with a brunette skin is the rule, to which Eugénie Besançon was a remarkable exception.
— from The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid