I couldn't see where you'd got to-our children," he observed parenthetically, "have their uses-I want you to go to my study, Katharine; go to the third shelf on the right-hand side of the door; take down 'Trelawny's Recollections of Shelley'; bring it to me.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
But let me now venture to step a little outside of my own province, my small plot-a poor pedestrian's unimportant impressions of places and faces; all these p's come by accident; and this I put in parenthetically just because an editor solemnly told me a while ago that he couldn't abide and wouldn't have alliteration's artful aid in his periodical.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Yet one of the patients had been listed with dates leading up to and including Procedure Under Way, but after that the patient was noted parenthetically as having been "terminated."
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover