"Better have left it alone, I believe," observed he, reinserting the poker, and again stirring up the black mass, for the fire was now virtually defunct.
"Newton Forster"
Frederick Marryat
The absolute femininity of it, the fumbling for the hatpins, the deliberate and thoughtful reinserting of them afterward in the discarded hat, where they can be found when needed, the invariable smoothing back of the hair from brow and eyes,-all these things make their peculiar appeal.
"The Mayor of Warwick"
Herbert M. Hopkins