It was a spot from which a man new to that wild country might well have shrunk, and the roar of water rang through it in tremendous, nerve-taxing pulsations.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
On taxing Symonds with it afterward, he admitted that he was afraid his wife would make trouble if the room should be wrecked.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
There were the two young Galleons, Millicent and Percival, looking as important and mysterious as possible, taxing their brains for something clever to say....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole