The quick-stepping horse of Bud Mansie came near, and the rider wiped his stiff lips, and spoke from the side of his mouth, a prison habit of the line that moves in the lockstep: "Take it from me, Jim, there ain't any place in our crew for a man you've picked up without knowing him beforehand.
"Riders of the Silences"
Max Brand
He went straight to the counter and asked for matches, and as the storekeeper, still keeping half an eye upon the formidable figure of Larrimer, turned for the matches, Denver spoke softly from the side of his mouth to Terry-only in the lockstep line of the prison do they learn to talk in this manner-gauging the carrying power of the whisper with nice accuracy.
"Black Jack"
Max Brand
I've thought iv thim whin th' lockstep was goin' in to dinner, an' prayed f'r th' day whin I might see ye again.
"Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen"
Finley Peter Dunne