She looked sort of miffed when I said this, and then I said that she could set up with him any time she wanted in my sitting-room in the basement, what is real comfortable furnished and pretty-looking—and which you too is perfectly welcome to bring any gentleman company to any time you've a mind.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

She looked so peaked and strange I jest stood starin' at her a minit, and all to once she reached out her hand and motioned to me; and as I stepped in she caught hold of the big end of the speakin' trumpet, and then I see that she thought I was deef; and quick as a wink it come to me to play deef 's long as I could—deef folks are allus makin' blunders—and then to 'polergize an' git out.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

" She looked very pale as I said this, and then I saw that she was more shaken and hurt than I had at first thought.
— from Roger Trewinion by Joseph Hocking

At this end, opposite the west gate of the park, is the station of the mid-island line, distinguished as “Ventnor Town,” whereas “Ventnor” station of the older east coast rail stands so high above the sea that access to it suggests the “stations” of a pilgrimage.
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

Sometimes there are two in succession, the second assuming the task of teaching work which a newspaper beginner usually reaches in from three to five years: the special article, the supplement, study of a subject, the "feature" story, criticism, and the editorial.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper