King Willliam set down the bundle of papers that he had been Conning with a sour expression, as if tasting bad wine, and ordered the Captain to come forward, which he did, with a profound salute.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A proof of the latter occurred when, with his quick-witted wife, he was occupied in Conning over the Italian and Modern Greek Grammars, in preparation for their journey to the Ionian Islands.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
Some of the joints didn't seem to fit any too close, and a lot of it I suppose we got on hindside front and upside down, but in the course of half an hour we were harnessed for fair, including a Conning tower apiece on our heads.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford