"But it's my belief," continued Chumbley, spreading his words out so as to cover a good deal of space, while he made himself comfortable by stretching out his long legs, lowering himself back, and placing his hands under his head-a very ungraceful position, which displayed a gap between his vest and the top of his trousers-"it's my belief, I say, that if Beauty there goes on playing with the Beast in his plaid sarong, and making his opal eyeballs roll into the idea that she cares for him, which she doesn't a single pip-" "Go on, I'm listening," said the doctor's lady.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
She heard their harsh, loud voices, not their words, and she saw their stiff, ungraceful gestures instead of the fancy-work and worked-over dresses which they showed her.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
Alix sat back on her heels, in the ungraceful fashion of her girlhood, and shrugged her shoulders.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris