"We ought to have foreseen the consequences of encouraging him to come here," said Miss Jane, "though my conscience acquits me of having designedly thrown the young people together."
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
I have not been spared, and I shall spare no one in telling the unadorned and unpleasant story of a man who has been bitterly wronged, whose character has been assailed by bought and perjured affidavits, whose life before he returned from the famine-land of ice and cold-the world of his conquest-was endangered, designedly or not, by a dishonest appropriation of food supplies by one who afterwards endeavored to steal from him his honor, which is more dear than life.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Then he rose, threw off his velvet and lace, and designedly let his thoughts turn to Arenta.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr