I warned Laura very seriously against any precipitate attempts, for I saw it was probable this incautiousness would increase, provided it were encouraged.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
It was a thousand pities, indeed; it was impossible for even an enemy to feel otherwise on looking at Tess as she sat there, with her flower-like mouth and large tender eyes, neither black nor blue nor grey nor violet; rather all those shades together, and a hundred others, which could be seen if one looked into their irises-shade behind shade-tint beyond tint-around pupils that had no bottom; an almost standard woman, but for the slight incautiousness of character inherited from her race.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
The next moment brought her to recollection; but there was no retracting what had been said,-she was obliged to explain; and the change in her mother's countenance, and the subdued tremulousness of her voice, soon gave her reason to repent her incautiousness.
"Amy Herbert"
Elizabeth Sewell