“I want to be sure—” “Have you seen the rooms upstairs?” asked the minister, turning his back upon his senior deacon.
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

If, indeed, I had not had your sagacity to rely upon, ever since I have had the honor of being connected with you in business—— ah, Mr. Quirk, you know you lead—I follow"—— "Gammon, Gammon!" interrupted Quirk, with an uncomfortable, but still a mollified air, "Come—your name's Oily "—— "In moments like these, Mr. Quirk, I say nothing that I do not feel," interrupted Gammon, gravely, putting to his nose the least modicum of snuff which he could take with the tip of his finger out of the huge box of Mr. Quirk, who, just then, was thrusting immense pinches, every half minute, up his nostrils.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

"He didn't speak about being willing to come up and help you set the room up again, did he?"
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson