Frau Dremmel's place at the table-she had pulled her chair close up to it-was asterisked with begun and abandoned cakes.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Though it rained and blew, and whistled and streamed, nobody paid the slightest attention, nobody said 'What a change in the weather,' for all the world was deeply engrossed in reading about his asterisked self and his asterisked neighbour.
"The Passionate Elopement"
Compton Mackenzie
Eventually, however, after an explosion, and he'd be asterisked if he would, and might the lady herself be asterisked, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, "Dick Darling" was coaxed over, and he, Mrs. Burton and Lisa at the appointed time sallied forth in all the glory of war paint, and in due course were ushered into the detested house.
"The Life of Sir Richard Burton"
Thomas Wright