"Your lordship's compliments are overpowering," said the lady, with a profound curtsey; and then she secured her book and would have fled, but his lordship insisted upon escorting her to her carriage, hat in hand, and he cursed that new pomade in a way that was silent but not divine, for it lifted one side of his hair as if he were being Scalped when he raised his hat.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"Send the boy out there to that wild place, and have him Scalped by an Indian or gobbled by a bear before he's there a month?
"The Wreckers of Sable Island"
J. Macdonald Oxley
They sluiced up the gulch for a month, and then down the gulch for a month, until the whole hill-side was Scalped, as it were, to the bone, and the treasure-hunters were bankrupt, but not even so much as the color of the dead man's gold was found.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller