They out-Martin Martin himself in mere Abusiveness, in deliberate quaintness of phrase, in fantastic vapourings and promises of the dreadful things that are going to be done to the enemy.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
And it is really astonishing what a shaft of white light this sheds on the Campaigner, on her terrible temperament, on her agonised Abusiveness and her almost more agonised urbanity, on her clamour which is nevertheless not open or explicable, on her temper which is not so much bad temper as insatiable, bloodthirsty, man-eating temper.
"Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens"
G. K. Chesterton
Had Waterland been of a warmer and more excitable temperament he might have been tempted to indulge in vague declamation or in that personal Abusiveness which was only too common in the theological controversies of the day.
"The English Church in the Eighteenth Century"
Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton