What It Meant

           They use the expression "delayed action". I found out then what it meant. For two days a sort of formless uneasiness, a disembodied suspicion. I don't know what to call it, had been flitting and volplaning around in my mind, like an insect looking for a landing place.

Rear Window 
(It Had To Be Murder)
Cornell Woolrich
1942

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Tomas Ripoli Kibayisha

https://www.sjsu.edu/people/edwin.sams/courses/c5/s0/woolrich.pdf