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On the nearest corner Mr. Todd encountered a fellow-townsman, who had been pacing up and down in front of a cottage, crooning to a protestive baby held in his arms.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

She heard a match struck in the next room, and the voices of the two men: Joe's, then the other's, the latter at first broken and protestive, but soon rising shrilly.

From The Conquest of Canaan by Tarkington, Booth