"You don't realize what newspapers are," Gail said with a trace of Wryness.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
"In truth," said he with a smile that had not a trace of Wryness, "I have chosen my means ill for this one time, though they say that I choose well.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
He touched her with his finger, and the instant he touched her all dilapidation and Wryness and age went from her, and she became so beautiful that one dared scarcely look on her, and so young that she seemed but sixteen years of age.
"Irish Fairy Tales"
James Stephens