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The band which to his eyes was a mere party of adventurers gone forth to seek their fortune beyond seas appears to the reader as the germ of a great nation wafted by Providence to a predestined shore.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
The first words which I read, began with the offer of a reward of three hundred guineas for the apprehension of a convict under sentence of death, who had escaped from Newgate prison in Dublin.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
but I think that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the families own a shelter.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
No mates exist for countless miles around, and a chestnut, though both male and female, will not serve itself.