This process of europeanisation will spread from south to north, and may probably not be complete in the north-at any rate, in the German and Portuguese parts of the north-till the end of the next century.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
Mrs. Thomas, of New York, was a handsome American widow with handsome children, all from the Avenue Gabriel in Paris, and with the boys enjoying life, among many little compatriots, at the admired establishment of M. Haccius, even as our small brothers were doing at that of M. Maquelin; yet with their destiny of ultimate europeanisation, of finally complete absorption into the French system, already rather written for them-as a like history, for like foredoomed young subjects, was in those years beginning to be prefigured, through marriages of daughters and other such beguilements, almost wherever one looked.
"Notes of a Son and Brother"
Henry James