Can we wonder that Americans have retorted with some asperity upon criticisms in which any approach to such insolent insularism is even remotely or inadvertently implied?
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
At last the silence of these lonely meditations is broken by sudden recollections-for dinner the cook had sent up a boiled chicken instead of roast, and he had looked upon boiled chicken as a vulgar insularism always.
"Muslin"
George Moore