Catlin, in his book on the North American Indian, relates that the Mandans, among other tribes, practiced shooting a number of arrows in succession with such dexterity that their best archer could keep eight arrows up in the air at one time.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

There would seem to have been a considerable kainga either at or near Te Puna.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

"Thou hast heard it suggested," said Cavallero, significantly, "that, in the matter of the Alpujarras, his heart was hotter, and his hand redder than became a Christian knight, even when striking on the hearth of the Infidel?"
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

Then when their spirit is softened by misfortune they will recur to those principles which made England great, and which, in our belief, alone can keep England great.
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

“You don’t by any chance know either of those men?”
— from Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Being as constantly known every day to walk his rounds through the shops as he sat down to meals, where his great skill and experience enabled him to make choice of what was not obvious to every vulgar eye.
— from Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

Spanish-American pupils, daughters of wealthy tobacco, sugar or coffee planters, were not infrequent at this and other convent schools around Baltimore, and Catherine knew enough of them not to yield so precipitately as had many girls to the romantic glamour cast around them by their coming from a strange land.
— from The Mermaid of Druid Lake, and Other Stories by Charles Weathers Bump