As she mounted her favourite galloway, I remarked, with pleasure, that old Christy forgot his usual Crustiness, and hastened to adjust her saddle and bridle.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The Crustiness left it as if by magic.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
And as I sat and watched the Mayor go saunteringly down the street, with his Crustiness carried like a child on his shoulder, which it delighted him to have knocked off, so that he could philosophize in the restoring of it to its position, suddenly a realization of the relation of Glendale to the world in general was forced upon me-and I quailed.
"The Tinder-Box"
Maria Thompson Daviess