The other prominent figure was that of Richard Crickett, the parish clerk, a kind of Bowdlerized rake, who ate only as much as a woman, and had the rheumatism in his left hand.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
Some of us would be as helpless without a Bowdlerized generality or a platitude to sustain our minds as the invalid would be without his peptonized beef-tea.
"Red Pottage"
Mary Cholmondeley
Moreover, a somewhat Bowdlerized English edition, published by William Heinemann in 1901, made a fair success, and even provoked a certain mild controversy.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken