Slowly he let his eyes wander comprehensively about the saloon: first, they travelled to a small balcony-reached by a ladder drawn down or up at will-decorated with red calico curtains, garlands of cedar and bittersweet, while the railing was ornamented with a wildcat's skin and a stuffed fawn's head; from the ceiling with its strings of red peppers, onions and apples they fell on a stuffed grizzly bear, which stood at the entrance to the dance-hall, with a little green parasol in its paw and an old silk hat upon its head; from it they shifted to the gaudy bar with its paraphernalia of fancy glasses, show-cases of coloured liquors and its pair of scales for weighing the gold dust; and from that to a keg, the top of which could be withdrawn without Engendering the slightest suspicion that it represented other than an ordinary receptacle for liquor.
"The Girl of the Golden West"
David Belasco
It formed an important accession to the food of the party, and it is highly probable that their good health may be attributable to the quantity of fruit, of which this was the principal, which they were able to procure, there being no case of scurvy during the journey, a distemper frequently Engendering in settled districts, when there is no possibility of varying the diet with vegetables.
"The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine"
Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
It might, by Engendering ridicule from the insolence of office, weaken a claim, otherwise well founded.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton