"So we can try to get you transferred to a juvie facility on the mainland, but Marcus, those places can be really rough.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

“The church of Rome is to be respected as the only Hebraeo-christian church extant; all other churches established by the Hebrew apostles have disappeared, but Rome remains; and we must never permit the exaggerated position which it assumed in the middle centuries to make us forget its early and apostolical character, when it was fresh from Palestine and as it were fragrant from Paradise.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

One held a small pot of rouge, another a box of hair-pins, and the third a tall can with bright red ribbons.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The former being richly remunerated with these, so valuable in their estimation: they performed their work so well, that the channel between the island and mainland, a distance of about twelve miles, was soon crossed.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

A sharp wind howled without, and drove the fine snow through the chinks in the door, almost to the hearth-stone, on which two immense blocks of maple shed forth a cheering glow, brightening the narrow window-panes, and making the blackened rafters ruddy with the heart-invigorating blaze.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I have been rather reckless, but I could easily come out of that.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Been rather rough with this one, my lads.”
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

And the broad, rich russulas in the autumn called aloud, "I am a fat, wholesome Mushroom," and the deadly amanita cried, "I am an Amanita.
— from The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton

They simply stated the fact that Pelone was lost, and one sentence read: 'He who shall find it again shall be richly rewarded.'
— from Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes by Victor Appleton

By Richard R. Montgomery.
— from Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice. by Luis Senarens

The colours, too, are very different; for in the male insect the wings are partially of a dark chestnut brown, with a light band running round them, as may be seen in the engraving; while in the female the wings are almost entirely of a uniform yellowish brown.
— from The Common Objects of the Country by J. G. (John George) Wood

That the sister provinces of Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick be respectfully requested to organize themselves, and to send delegates to the meeting at Ottawa, on the fourteenth of May next, that time having been selected because in all probability the parliament will still be in session, and the members may attend the session before dispersing.
— from The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Alexander Fraser