This food he had brought with him; a thermos bottle full of hot coffee, with slices of ham, cheese, and bread; and he ate it with appetite, sitting on a log beside the fire, and pleasantly conscious as he looked round him, like the Greek poet of long ago, of that "cuteness" of men which conjures up housing, food, and fire in earth's loneliest places.
"Harvest"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Well, Father Reilly has cuteness to divide you now.
"The Playboy of the Western World"
J. M. Synge
Mr. Kybird, who had ever a wholesome dread of falling a victim to his friend's cuteness, regarded him with some uncertainty, and reminded him of one or two pieces of information which had seriously depleted his till.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs