Strewn with boulders, rocks and ugly stones, carved here and there in fantastic shapes, with mysterious hollows and quaint prairie-dog holes, it was just possible to scramble along.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

But I have as great a reason as Uncle Sam can have for wanting to preserve the secrets of this boat from all but sworn officers and men of the Navy.
— from The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

He affirmed, however, that the unhealthfulness of the climate was the most serious obstacle; and, since it was late in the season for us to put up a mosquito-proof dwelling before the rainy and unhealthy season came, he thought it best for us to select a place and then go south until the rains were over.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

"But you haven't tried it out in a car yet, over rough roads, and under severe conditions have you?" "No, I haven't had a chance.
— from Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on the Road by Victor Appleton

Two royalist armies under Santa Cruz had entered the upper provinces.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson