I give one instance, typical although extreme.

One who had returned from Tutuila on the mail cutter complained of the vermin with which she is infested.

He was suddenly and sharply brought to a stand.

The ship of which he spoke, he was reminded, was a German ship.
John Caesar Godeffroy himself had never visited the islands; his sons and nephews came, indeed, but scarcely to reap laurels; and the mainspring and headpiece of this great concern, until death took him, was a certain remarkable man of the name of Theodor Weber.

He was of an artful and commanding character; in the smallest thing or the greatest, without fear or scruple; equally able to affect, equally ready to adopt, the most engaging politeness or the most imperious airs of domination.