1 The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inland country.
2 Their power was nominal but they had at least been able to keep the state government in the hands of native Georgians.
3 They were good people and they needed only a short acquaintance with Carpetbaggers and Carpetbag rule to become as resentful of them as the native Georgians were.
4 But she had not been ten minutes on her native shore before she realized that she had delayed too long to regain it.
5 From the Gormers' tumultuous progress across their native continent, she returned with an altered view of her situation.
6 She discovered that, despite the enthusiastic young writers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones.
7 Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South.
8 I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do they fast on their hams that way in his native island.
9 The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 10 He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 11 The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 12 In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 13 The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 14 Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 15 I believe that botanists do not confirm Fuchs's story, but insist that the sunflower was native to those plains.