"I did not know Brierley Cottage was such a pretty place," she began.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

Each girl has a nice little room all to herself, in which is a single bed covered with a clean white spread, a pretty pillow sham on the pillow, a dresser, a mirror, a rug and a chair.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 46, January 1907) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

The roads were covered with snow, and poor people struggled for room in the baths so that some fell on the stoves and were burned.”
— from Pictures of Hellas: Five Tales of Ancient Greece by Peder Mariager

To a modern audience, at least, Demosthenes on the Crown would seem a pretty poor sort of affair by the side of Ingersoll on the Davis will.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll