... stopped short, the stream of his narrative interrupted by a certain memory. "Say, that was what it was!" And he slapped his thigh with delight at having solved a mystery. "That's the reason she had such fantods when I wanted to kiss her that day last summer! It was just because she happened to ... — With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... to go pirootin' 'round among his eyes as suits his taste. But I'm a mighty nervous man that a-way, an' Cape knows, or oughter know, how, as I states, I'm nacherally all onstrung, an' that his carryin's on with them eyes gives me the fantods. Onder all the circumstances, I claims his conduct is ornery, an' not what a invalid like me ... — Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis