While it was roasting he scraped the skin and rubbed rotten wood dust on it to clean it until he was tired.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I can easily conceive such a result," repeated Mr. Farebrother, emphatically.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Men all in a panic of fear; sent a round robin, asking to have double watch, as they fear to be alone.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Is it very hot, Margaret?' 'Very hot, and the streets are rather rough with the strike.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Starting as Right Reason, Giri has, in my opinion, often stooped to casuistry.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

we found a large island, where rice, ginger, swine, goats, fowls, figs one-half braza long and as thick as the arm [ i.e. , bananas] (they are excellent; and certain others are one palmo and less in length, and are much better than all the others), cocoanuts, camotes [ batate ], sugarcane, and roots resembling turnips in taste, are found.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Smallage, Carline Thistle, Sullendine, China, Turmerick, Fennel, Gentian, Dog-grass, Cinquefoil, Parsley, Smallage, Asparagus, Rhubarb, Rhapontic, Kneeholly.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The committee of the General Congress appointed to draft it, consisted of the following: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Should it be pretended, that though a mistake of fact be not criminal, yet a mistake of right often is; and that this may be the source of immorality: I would answer, that it is impossible such a mistake can ever be the original source of immorality, since it supposes a real right and wrong; that is, a real distinction in morals, independent of these judgments.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

It was sometimes a rather riotous affair.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

One option, to be implemented immediately upon USAFE, SAC, or NATO notice, was to deploy 'rapid area maintenance teams' comprised of U S civil service employees, along with their tool kits and air- transportable mobile power generators and other essential equipment, to designated locations along the SAC aircraft return routes.
— from A Grandpa's Notebook Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication by Meyer Moldeven

Lépinay found that with pure acetylene ignition of the charge was apt to be premature; and that while the consumption of carburetted acetylene in small motors still materially exceeded the theoretical, further economics could be attained, which, coupled with the smooth and regular running of an engine fed with the carburetted gas, made carburetted acetylene distinctly the better power-gas of the two.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

There’s too much competition in it to be comfortable, as the fat man said about runnin’ races.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The leaves, their stems and the plant stems are rather rough.
— from Flower Guide: Wild Flowers East of the Rockies (Revised and with New Illustrations) by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

As usual, he sought a rural retreat during the summer months, where he might alternate his literary labors with strolls about the green fields.
— from Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving

Of the social and religious relations existing between the races, we shall have occasion to speak more fully before closing the present book.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Once a barge went past under the Battersea bank, with music playing in the stern, and Ralph raised himself on his elbow to watch it as it went down the stream with flags flying behind, and the rhythmical throb of the row-locks sounding time to the dancing melody.
— from The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson