P.P.S. I saw a Red Coat not unknown to a certain young lady now resident at Curtain Wells.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Women of the street, sitting together, chewed gum and laughed and talked shrilly, and Rhona could not understand how prisoners could be so care-free.
— from The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

My father and mother inherited most of their negroes, and there was an attachment existing between master and mistress and their slaves which one who had never borne such a relation could never understand.
— from Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure

The porcupine quills make me feel just as a bull does when he sees a red cloth; nobody understands how I suffer with them!”
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin