1897, H. G. Wells, 章號 1, 出自 A Story of the Stone Age[1]，於9 March 2012歸檔自原頁面:
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, 出自 The Death of the Moth, and other essays[2]，於24 February 2011歸檔自原頁面:
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.
