There were other girls, girls like Edith Boyd, who were touched, some more, some less, with the soil of life.
— from A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The cell was small and old, the walls and ceiling were dirty, the window of grained glass looked extremely dingy; but Mrs. Lawrence said that in all probability we should eventually be put into new and very clean cells.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

This was flattering to the Overland, but it led us into future difficulties from which only great good luck extricated us.
— from Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer