Time and again he would catch himself listening for he knew not what, approaching warily the corner of the next huge monolith as if thinking to surprise behind it some ghoulish rite, glancing apprehensively down the corridors he passed, or overshoulder for some nameless thing that stalked him and was never there when he looked, but ever lurked impishly just beyond the tail of his eye.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
Then, impishly, she faced him, buttoning it with nimble fingers the while.
"The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories"
Ethel M. Dell
"Our proposition seems to Mr. West very reasonable and fair," grinned MacQueen impishly, paring his finger nails.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine