He knocked, with no result, at several doors for his old woman, but at last a feeble voice answered: "Come in," and he entered a room entirely dark.
— from The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill

On making his exit as Richard, Elliston dropped his hump from his shoulder, as though it had been a knapsack, straightened his deformed limbs, slipped on certain pieces of pasteboard armour, and, adorned with fresh head-gear, duly presented himself as the Tudor prince.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook