He does this in an altruistic spirit, in order by her to "model newer races" and "carry man to new degrees of power and comeliness."
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
Shall I bid sea-serpents crawl from the ooze of the deep to crush out your life in scaly folds; or set a watch of sharks about my garden to tear your live limbs piecemeal when you venture hence; or make the waves my agents to toss you and wrestle with you, to batter out all comeliness of form, and break your bones as reeds beneath the gale?
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
"They that can see any Virtue or comeliness in a Charles Stuart," says Father, "can hardly be expected to acknowledge the rugged Merits of a plain Republican."
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning