A portrait which her husband had commissioned the famous artist to paint of her was scarcely begun when the painter, who had taken an adjoining villa to theirs at Naples for the winter, had asked her whether she would sit to him in the character of a Greek nymph.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Take a chair, doctor- But Glenning was already in the hall following swiftly in the train of the young lady commissioned to mix the drinks.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
The dripping from the eaves of The Locks at night-he thought of it again-reminded him of the dripping from the coffin of a body packed in ice, which he was commissioned to watch, and long before day he left his bed and walked the floor.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe