Who can have done it?" "I'll bet anything Jack Curtiss and his gang had something to do with it, just as I believe they put up some crooked job on the captain!" burst out Rob, greatly excited and his breakfast entirely forgotten.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap

"Good-morning, Lord de Burgh, or rather good evening, for it is seven o'clock," said Mrs. Needham.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

This cave is on the top of a brae, or rising ground, eight miles north from Dunvegan Castle.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

When ye meet a band o' robbers give 'em the sign an' tell 'em you want to join."
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

In the fourteenth century the tree naturally becomes a vine, usually in colour upon a blue or ruby ground, extending beyond the limits of a single light, and crossing not only the mullions, but the borders (which, by the way, often confuse the effect of a Decorated Jesse window).
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

I took Gertrud with me to give me a countenance and walked across to the inn, a new red-brick house standing out boldly on a bit of rising ground, end ways on to the sea.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

But the Bishop of Ross gave evidence, that in Mary's design, in 1571, to escape from Sheffield Castle to the Continent, she was aided by several Lancashire gentlemen; and adds, that she wrote a letter by a little priest of Rolleston's to Sir Thomas Stanley.
— from Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine by John Harland