1897，H. G. Wells，章號 1，A Story of the Stone Age[1]，原文存檔於9 March 2012：
Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.
1942，Virginia Woolf，章號 20，The Death of the Moth, and other essays[2]，原文存檔於24 February 2011：
But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.
