"I told him you was the prettiest thing that ever wore shoe-leather; that you had hair of a reddish-brownish mixture that no man could begin to describe, and eyes so big and deep and drawing-like that a feller couldn't look in 'em without wondering what they was made of, and cheeks and lips as red and ripe and laughing as-" "That will do," Dixie laughed, pleasurably.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
"Yet if this person could but lay his hand-" The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel To Wong Pao, the merchant, pleasurably immersed in the calculation of an estimated profit on a junk-load of birds' nests, sharks' fins and other seasonable delicacies, there came a distracting interruption occasioned by a wandering poet who sat down within the shade provided by Wong Pao's ornamental gate in the street outside.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Afternoons passed in much the same manner, and night found Tom, if not actually exhausted from the unceasing grind, at least pleasurably fatigued thereby and ready for an after-dinner doze.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach