Gannett pulled off the sofa-tassel and flung it away.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
He sat motionless, staring at the tassel which lay at the other end of the room.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
She began, like a child, to finger a tassel hanging from her mother's cloak.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf