He had countless virtues; she extolled him in beaming Parentheses.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
And this Rockefeller and this Morgan, either of them, to sell them up clean, would be worth another couple of million- I may say in Parentheses that it was a favourite method in Mariposa if you wanted to get at the real worth of a man, to imagine him clean sold up, put up for auction, as it were.
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock
The fellow turned on me sharply, but a curiously ugly smile began to make curves like Parentheses at the corners of his lips, and he showed his teeth directly after.
"Burr Junior"
G. Manville Fenn