Fact is," he continued in a more confidential tone and with a quite unnecessary repetition of his trick of glancing round the room in search of impossible eavesdroppers, "I've had a wire from town.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
I hid them in the left door of the sideboard -the one that is hard to get open, and every once in a while I open the door, take a look and a good sniff, then gently close the door after a hasty glance around to see there are no eavesdroppers thereabouts.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
Chub caught up with him on the steps and together they crossed the walk and found seats under one of the elms well away from possible eavesdroppers.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour