So I can find them again
Scroggs reached up to ring the bell, but I chopped the cord and one of his thumbs as I did so. I have never seen so much bobbing and screaming over a minor injury.
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing The Cherry
Between what contact did to you and how tired you got, between the farout things you saw or heard and what you personally lost out of all that got blown away, the war made a place for you that was all yours.
Michael Kerr, Dispatches
So then he called in his assistance and he pointed at me and talked to his assistance quite a lot in the Viennese landguage. So then his assistance looked at me and looked at me and it really seems as if I was quite a famous case. So then Dr Froyd said that all I needed was to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep.
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes