They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

"That we shall see presently," said Maritornes, and making a running knot on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and coming down from the hole tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door of the straw-loft.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“That we shall see presently,” said Maritornes, and making a running knot on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and coming down from the hole tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door of the straw-loft.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

On leaving, I placed a silver coin in the singer’s tawny palm, whereupon she sprang from her stool by the fire and gave me a resounding kiss on the cheek.
— from The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures by Hall, George, rector of Ruckland, Lincolnshire

The mythological and religious knowledge of the Bushmen is still imparted in dances; and when a man is ignorant of some myth he will say, "I do not dance that dance," meaning that he does not belong to the guild which preserves that particular "sacred chapter".(2) (1) Missionary Travels (1857), p. 13. (2) Orpen, Cape Monthly Magazine, 1872.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

It originated from the figure of a man's face cut in a sycamore tree which stood near the confluence of the Mombakkus and Rondout kills on the patent to Tjerck Classen de Witt, and was carved, tradition says, to commemorate a battle fought near the spot," that "for this information" he was "indebted to the late Dr. Westbrook, who said the stump of the tree yet stood in his youthful days."
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

In this “Book of Martyrs,” gathered from all quarters, and chronicling the obscurest individuals, many a reader, kindling over the lengthened page, dwelt on his own domestic tale in the volume of the nation.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The old Irish, and sometimes the Danes, made a rude kind of tankard, Fig.
— from A Manual of Wood Carving by Charles Godfrey Leland

I began to suspect that the Madame was trying to torment or tempt me, and there was a bare possibility that my reluctance to make any real kind of love to her had aroused her interest.
— from A Maid and a Million Men the candid confessions of Leona Canwick, censored indiscreetly by James G. Dunton by James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

Eustace, I thought, turned pale, but it might have been the greenish light through the bottle-glass windows of the little church, on whose damp floor we three were standing before the tombs of the Brandlings of former times, quaint pyramids of kneeling figures, sons and daughters tapering downwards from the kneeling father and mother; and recumbent knights, obliterated by centuries in the ruined roofless chapel, so that the dog at their feet, the sword by their side, let alone their poor washed features, were scarce distinguishable....
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

Peter made a rough kind of cradle out of willow twigs, and hung it in a tree, so that the fresh, green leaves shaded it, and kept [Pg 31] away the flies, and fanned Daisy's face, as she lay there swinging, when the day was warm, like a little hangbird in her nest.
— from Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild

"Who was the man?" "A rough kind of a fellow who keeps a saloon on the East Side.
— from Nelson the Newsboy; Or, Afloat in New York by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In the same figure may be noticed the way of preparing the meal coming from the mill for making a rough kind of cake.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier