“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”
Ellen Kushner (1955) American writer
“She was extremely fond of snuff, and blew her nose with a trumpet-like sound on a vast indian silk handkerchief, which she carefully arranged before use with a sort of cushion.”
Of his Aunt Anna; p. 34.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)
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