On they climbed, till at last, emerging from under the low oak branches, they stood, solitary figures, on a grassy ridge, bare save for a clump of high twisted fir-trees which swayed Gauntly against the vast grey expanse of sky.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She, too, had had time to prepare for the meeting, and she was sitting Gauntly by the west window awaiting her guest.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
The whole ugly shape of it stood out Gauntly against the sky of the summer night.
"The Crooked House"
Brandon Fleming