Most of the dwellings were owned by their occupiers, who, each an absolute monarch of the soil, Niggled in his sooty garden of an evening amid the flutter of drying shirts and towels.
"Hilda Lessways"
Arnold Bennett
But I hold my case for a rare command of manner thus proved, and need go no further; the more that I have dropped too many of those threads of my rather Niggled tapestry that belong but to the experience of my own weaving hand and the interplay of which represents thereby a certain gained authority.
"Notes of a Son and Brother"
Henry James