1841 W. L. McCalla Adventures in Texas ii. 19 I was now about to encounter a degree of fatigue, which an intelligent Houstonian had lately told me, was the cause of speedy death to many emigrants in Texas.

1874 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 410/1 The Houstonians hope one day to dredge and widen this bayou to Galveston.

1900 O. S. Marden Winning Out xviii. 145 Naturally hospitable,..the Houstonians determined to go beyond any other Southern city in the way of a banquet.

1960 Billboard 18 Jan. 8/3 A native Houstonian, Robey has specialized in rock and roll, rhythm and blues and spiritual disks for the past 12 years.

2001 Guardian 11 Aug. i. 17/2 The city centre has six miles of subterranean tunnels connecting the main buildings, the better to protect Houstonians from the heat of the street.

1879 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 20 Apr. Houstonian amateurs will hold the Galveston boards next Thursday night.

1914 J. E. Wing Let. 2 Dec. in W. C. Tichenor Farm Contracts between Landlord & Tenant (1916) 122 It is the system used by men of the Houstonian farms.

1941 Freeport (Texas) Facts 11 Sept. 5/1 Kit Reid and his Houstonian orchestra played superdanceable tunes until the wee hours.

1982 Texas Monthly Oct. 5/1 My original intention in going out there had been to wring some irony from this very Houstonian juxtaposition.

1998 Esquire July 113/2 Sit down to Gulf Coast blue crabs with black-bean sauce, and feel every bit as Houstonian as you would chowing the tacos al carbon.

1843 Cincinnati Weekly Herald & Philanthropist 13 Dec. 2/2 It was full of fearful disclosures of British ambition, British trickery, Houstonian treason.

1847 Amer. Rev. June 568/1 ‘This book,’ he proceeds, ‘will lose me some friends,’ (his original Van Burenian patrons, no doubt,) ‘but it will win me better ones in their places,’ (to wit, Houstonian ones.).

1879 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Mar. The young man replied, in true Houstonian style, ‘If I can not get the place on actual merit, I will not accept it.’

1926 Washington Post 31 Jan. 6/1 Egotism was well developed in Houston. He dressed in the mode but always with a Houstonian touch—the sombrero or serape.

1993 J. H. Williams Sam Houston (1994) iv. 84 As finally revealed by Mayo to Jackson late in the year, the conspiracy did have a Houstonian ring to it.