Ponk nearly fell down on getting me a chauffeur for to-day; the superintendent didn't get the Quarterlies to our Sunday-school class on time yesterday morning; the Big Dipper took the wrong pew and kept it, and now my breakfast must wait-all on account of this Jerry girl.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
The scientific researches he had undertaken made no stir when they found light in the pages of obscure Quarterlies circulating amongst a few dozen other men engaged in similar research.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
He had begun on the spot, for one of the Quarterlies, a great last word on Vereker's writings, and this exhaustive study, the only one that would have counted, have existed, was to turn on the new light, to utter-oh, so quietly!
"Embarrassments"
Henry James