The visitor at La chine rapids, near Montreal, might have seen a squadron of Northwestern trading canoes leaving for the Grand Portage, at the west of Lake Superior.
"The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin"
Frederick Jackson Turner
Where the Blunder grounded-and she hath airned her name, for the good of the dwellers in this village-is the chine of the Pig; and he hath a double back, with the outer side higher than the inner one.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore
The farmer did full justice to the sweet picking off the chine, and then lingered over an old cheese.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies