Dey had a scrap in de dark, each finking de odder was after de jools, an' not knowin' dey was bote sleut's, an' now one of dem's bin an' taken de odder off, an' locked him in de cellar."
"The Gem Collector"
P. G. Wodehouse
"I was finking," went on the president, confidentially and undisturbed, "why a nice little surprise for papa wouldn't be as good an idea as any.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
I was finking-with a chuckle-that you might poison one of the nicest of the stuffed birds.
"Explorers of the Dawn"
Mazo de la Roche