In a dream he saw a small hand wave as the taxicab vanished round the corner to the right; in a dream he sprang up-stairs, hiding under his coat the weapon with which that little hand had dealt out death; and awoke in his wintriest clothes, his greatest coat, to find himself called upon to top the lot with another of unkempt fur sent with the car.
"The Crime Doctor"
Ernest William Hornung
In my boyhood days I may have put in rather a heavy sowing of wild oats"-the general laughed; Mildred conjured up the wintriest and faintest of echoing smiles-"but that's all past," he went on, "and there's nothing that could rise up to interfere with our happiness.
"The Price She Paid"
David Graham Phillips