She had been an iceberg that night; she had assumed a role of which he had not deemed her capable.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
He was accustomed to a world in which his occupation and social status were assured, and childhood experience probably led him to assume the farmer's role naturally.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
He retained the detached and distant manner with slight acquaintances which his role of an observer in Society had taught him.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood