His old nurse's clean, self-respecting presence haunted, not unpleasantly, the room at times when Richard Maule only asked to forget the present in the past.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
When he had stepped out upon the stable floor, however, he smiled rather unpleasantly.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
He was unpleasantly conscious that the light was on his face.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton