He had come to be conscious through it all of strangely glaring at people when they tried to haggle-and not, as formerly, with the glare of derisive comment on their overdone humour, but with that of fairly idiotised surrender-as if they were much mistaken in supposing, for the sake of conversation, that he might take himself for Saveable by the difference between sevenpence and ninepence.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James
Pickering'll be a magician, I mean; he's the boy who'll save our bacon, if it's Saveable.
"Uller Uprising"
Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr