My divine Clarissa has puzzled me, and beat me out of my play: at one time, I hope to overcome by intimidating her; at another, by love; by the amorous see-saw, as I have called it.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Her stony look did not go far toward intimidating young Mr. Thorpe.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon
To one like Hagar, however, there was nothing intimidating in its creaking old floors, its rattling windows and noisome chimney, where the bats and the swallows built their nests; and when one day Madam Conway proposed giving little Maggie into the charge of a younger and less nervous person than herself she made no objection, but surprised her mistress by asking permission to live by herself in the "cottage by the mine," as it was called.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes