While Peter climbed, the good earth giving soddenly under his feet, and grasses tangling in the clasps of his walking shoes, the sunlight conquered, the sky cleared, and the last of the storm drifted and spread and vanished in a bath of dazzling blue.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
They had reached an opening in the forest, by the side of what was evidently a mountain of considerable height, and the doctor smiled as he recalled the fact that the Argus pheasant was reputed to haunt such places; when to his intense delight there soddenly rang out from the distance on the silent night air a peculiar cry that resembled the name given to the bird-Coo-ow.
"Middy and Ensign"
G. Manville Fenn
Dimly, soddenly, Martin followed the agent.
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
Various