‘Respect associations, Tommy, even if you do cut up rough.’ ‘Rough or smooth,’ said Mr Codlin, beating his hand on the little footboard where Punch, when suddenly struck with the symmetry of his legs and their capacity for silk stockings, is accustomed to exhibit them to popular admiration, ‘rough or smooth, I won’t go further than the mile and a half to-night.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

A boys' club carries on contests, under recognized rules, with similar organizations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Vellem nobis hoc idem vere dicere liceret; sed si minus imitatione tantam ingenii praestantiam consequi possumus, voluntate certe proxime accedimus; nam et a re publica forensibusque negotiis armis impiis vique prohibiti otium persequimur et ob eam causam urbe relicta rura peragrantes saepe soli sumus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

An official in felt boots and wearing a commissariat uniform ran round from side to side and gazed at the ruins of Moscow, loudly announcing his observations as to what had been burned down and what this or that part of the city was that they could see.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"I was meaning to carry mine, you can understand," Rob rejoined, as he picked it up from the chair where he had tossed it.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

Even in the settlements in Dacia, which continued under Roman rule only from 107 to 270 A.D., we find as many trades-unions as existed in Greek towns which were held by the Romans for three or four centuries.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

[Pg 283] court of Vilna K. excommunicates Hasidim (1772), I 237 K. of Vilna engages in litigation with rabbis, I 275 f financial indebtedness of K's., I 290 degeneration of, I 274 ff Jews of Minsk complain against (1782), I 275 Simeon Volfovich of Vilna urges abolition of (1788), I 276 abolition or curtailment of, urged by Poles, I 280 ff weakening of, recommended by Kalmansohn (1796), I 385 defended by Hirsch Yosefovich, rabbi of Khelm, I 283 supervision over, recommended by Abraham Hirschovich, I 284 abolition of, recommended by Committee of Polish Government (1815), II 89 abolition of, favored by Polish-Jewish assimilationists, II 101 criticised by David Friedländer, II 90 abolished in Poland (December 20, 1821-January 1, 1822), II 102 superseded by "Congregational Board," II 102 f See also Autonomy and Courts Kahal (Jewish Community), under Russian régime, attitude of Government towards, I 308 ff admission of Jews to city government conflicts with separate organization, I 308 Jews of annexed White Russia in K's.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

We had thus perpetual rupture and regelation; while the little sounds consequent upon rupture, reinforced by the partial echoes from the surfaces of the granules,
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

Take charge of camp until Rutter returns.
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Striking away from the creek across slopes of snow grass, we climbed up rocky ridges, and at about five thousand feet came out on a bare ridge, where I was put on the rope: then on up a steep snowfield, and over a rounded dome of snow where the surface was like pie-crust; next over slippery ice which had a sprinkling of snow, and where steps had to be chipped.
— from By Forest Ways in New Zealand by F. A. Roberts

“I am whistling to keep my courage up,” replied Robin.
— from Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

GREEK CITIES UNDER ROMAN RULE.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman