Up the uncarpeted stairs marched the great lady, down an equally bare hall lined on either side by bedroom doors, some marked by unblacked shoes others by tin trays holding fragments of late or early breakfasts, the flaring cap obsequiously pointing the way until the two had reached a door at the end of the corridor.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
It was introduced by Mistress Dorothy herself-to whom of course every one obsequiously listened.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Nevertheless, the younger man was greatly shocked when through the door, obsequiously opened-and held open while a man might count fifty, so that eye and mind grew expectant-the great statesman, the People's Minister at length appeared.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman