There was no pomp and circumstance about him, yet in the whole of the Indian Empire there was not an officer more highly honoured and few who possessed such wide influence as "old Sir Reggie," as irreverent subalterns fondly called him.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Lysander stopped his work, and looked after him with a whimsical, irreverent grimace.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
This is no irreverent teaching, for Meredith is not irreverent.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann