Lucky ones who had bought of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring Gymnastically beyond all reason.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber
She dropped as elegantly out as she had Gymnastically floated in, and "ces dames" must much have wished they could emulate her art.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James