I got up and made a sort of bow, with a scrape of my foot and a pull at a Lovelock I wore in those days, for it was not for me, I felt, to sit in the presence of one like her; when Jane, laughing, said- "Why, Ben, don't you know Susan Willis?"
"The Loss of the Royal George"
W.H.G. Kingston
And right in the center of my punishment of that Lovelock with the stiff brush without a handle, which was twins with another that had come with the gentleman's traveling bag which I had purchased in New York of the nice fat gentleman in the store of clothing for men, into my room came that Buzz without any ceremony save a rap upon my door which did not allow sufficient time for any response from me.
"The Daredevil"
Maria Thompson Daviess
My first action was to take down that Lovelock and with the oil of roses to lay it in its accustomed place upon my cheek, which burned with a beautiful rose of shame and at the same moment with some other emotion that I did not understand; which emotion also made my eyes as bright as the night stars out in that Camp Heaven.
"The Daredevil"
Maria Thompson Daviess