"After all," he said, "it's jolly to sit on something squashy again, and to see a pretty girl in a pretty frock."
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
I can't help getting a little squashy with my adjectives when I think of that glorious banquet night.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
We wanted it all to be nice, because you said we had to have him, papa, and after lunch Penrod went to guard him-that's a new part in the rixual-and he brought him over, and we took him out to the shack and blindfolded him, and-well, he got kind of mad because we wanted him to lay down on his stummick and be tied up, and he said he wouldn't, because the floor was a little bit wet in there and he could feel it sort of squashy under his shoes, and he said his mother didn't want him ever to get dirty and he just wouldn't do it; and we all kept telling him he had to, or else how could there be any 'nishiation; and he kept gettin' madder and said he wanted to have the 'nishiation outdoors where it wasn't wet and he wasn't goin' to lay down on his stummick, anyway.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington