If, however, they do not recognize it, or the receiver is sly enough calmly to walk off with the money, if the sum is great and restitution not easily possible, and if, moreover, the official happens to be in the bad graces of his superiors, he does not have much chance in the prosecution for embezzlement, which is more likely than not to be begun against him.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The river is so exceedingly crooked, that it is little used by travellers above Rouen.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper