Date: 1796
"Amidst the horror and disgust to which his soul was a prey, pity for his victim still held a place in it."
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Date: 1796
"Her passion continued to prey upon her heart in secret, and she had almost determined to confess her sentiments to her mother, when accident once more threw their object in her way."
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Date: 1799
Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind
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Date: 1799
"My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch."
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Date: 1814
"His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly quick as almost to resemble intuition, and the chief care of his preceptor was to prevent him, as a sportsman would phrase it, from over-running his game — that is, from acquiring his knowledge in a slight, flimsy, and inadequate manner."
preview | full record— Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)