Lady Bell began taking off her gloves Yawningly, but stopped suddenly, and looked up with an air of surprise as the door opened and a tall girl, with dark hair and eyes, entered.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
After dinner there was a little music, some bridge, more talk; then the women Yawningly went to bed, while the men stayed up for another cigar and further shop talk.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
The housemaids Yawningly opened the window-shutters; the footmen crept after them to aid in removing from one room at least the traces of the jubilee, which, like the relics of a lamp that has burnt out, showed but the more unsightly from its past splendour; and at length, to a superficial eye, the breakfast-room looked like the breakfast-room of former years; though a more discriminating glance might have detected girandoles where no such things had ever glittered before, card-tables in the place of work-tables, and flowers, still blooming in situations as little usual to them as a bed of strawberries would have been the day before.
"The Vicar of Wrexhill"
Mrs [Frances] Trollope