For, though he had throughout been almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities and his promptitudes-never had any interest or rent been a day late!
"Hilda Lessways"
Arnold Bennett
But, of course, this had been taken with just about the same amount of seriousness that people take most ghost tales, and that is not usually of a worryingly real nature.
"Carnacki, The Ghost Finder"
William Hope Hodgson
The list was growing long now, almost worryingly long, and the Boy felt it so, too, for he also had a list, and strange to say, it was much the same as mine.
"The Princess Passes"
Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson