This renders us strictly Yankee in our origin, an
extraction of which I find all who enjoy it fond of boasting.
From the habitable country extending along the coast, and from her English
extraction, she is sure to be a maritime nation.
More than once she thought of revealing all to her grandmother, and she would not have hesitated a moment, if Maximilian Morrel had been named Albert de Morcerf or Raoul de Chateau-Renaud; but Morrel was of plebeian
extraction, and Valentine knew how the haughty Marquise de Saint-Meran despised all who were not noble.
OF the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our literary history,--Lowell, Whitman, and Melville,--it is interesting to observe that the two latter were both descended, on the fathers' and mothers' sides respectively, from have families of British New England and Dutch New York
extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melville and Gansevoort, were the several combinations which produced these men; and it is easy to trace in the life and character of each author the qualities derived from his joint ancestry.
The only persons who did not share the general regard for the White Hussars were a few thousand gentlemen of Jewish
extraction who lived across the border, and answered to the name of Pathan.
My father was a Rocket like myself, and of French
extraction. He flew so high that the people were afraid that he would never come down again.
His sister Marian had been keeping company with an industrious young mechanic, of German
extraction, who, after thoroughly learning the trade, had set up for himself in a bicycle-repair shop.
In the winter of '46-7 there came a hundred men of Hyperborean
extraction swoop down on to our pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming tools -- sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described in the New-England Farmer or the Cultivator.
The questions you are requested to solve are these:- First, concerning your birth,
extraction, and previous residence.
'I hope the wife of your dear friend Mr Gowan, may be happy in the contrast of her
extraction to this girl's and mine, and in the high good fortune that awaits her.'
But, the Reginald Wilfer family were of such commonplace
extraction and pursuits that their forefathers had for generations modestly subsisted on the Docks, the Excise Office, and the Custom House, and the existing R.
there may also arise questions about any impositions and
extractions of market and harbour dues which may be required, and in general about the regulations of markets, police, harbours, and the like.