In fact, my dear niece, these would seem, like all other Irish misfortunes, the mere offshoots of her own dark ignorance and barbarism.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Thus were the offshoots of the two greatest and most cultivated and refined of modern nations, vis-a-vis, in the heart of the American continent.
"The History of Peru"
Henry S. Beebe
Nor did these offshoots from the old buccaneer stem confine their depredations to the American seas alone; the East Indies and the African coast also witnessed their doings, and suffered from them, and even the Bay of Biscay had good cause to remember more than one visit from them.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle