1919, L.M.H. van Overveen (translator), Louis Couperus (author), “Translation of an excerpt from Extaze” [unedited version] in English Studies, Swets & Zeitlinger, volume I, eds. G.H. Goethart, P.J.H.O. Schut, and R.W. Zandvoort, № 2, page 16:
Dolf van Attema, on his constitutional, had looked in to his wife’s sister Cecile van Even, at the Scheveningue Road, and he was waiting in the small front drawing-room, walking amidst the rosewooden pieces of furniture and the sofas for two, of a dull red-watered silk, with the three or four large strides with which he seemed to measure the narrowness of the apartment over and over again.
1998 August 28th, Vegard B. Havdal, “Re: SG bAss” in no.musikk.gitar, Usenet:
Denne karen i London som jeg nesten kjøpte SG av sa at Les Paul Studio alltid fikk den dårligste rosewooden og den dårligste mahognyen, mens de dyrere modellene får det som er førsteklasses.