And now there was she listening to his feverish talk, and plaguing him with her officiousness in his lucid intervals.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
As for Wilders, he was a worthy man of local mark, for whom Carlton had preached upon occasion; one prosperous alike in worldly welfare and in spiritual satisfaction; the last person to go into disgrace; and yet, by reason of a certain officiousness of character, the first to come forward as he had done.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
Robinson was far from thanking the old gentleman for his officiousness.
"Andy Grant's Pluck"
Horatio Alger