Mather says that "she was born of sober and honest parents;" also that it "is affirmed that for about half a year before her visitation she was observably improved in the hopeful symptoms of a new creature: she was become seriously concerned for the everlasting salvation of her soul, and careful to avoid the snares of evil company."
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
He gazed at her almost without ceasing, but as the other convicts did the same he was not observably devoted, and whenever she raised her big, clear eyes toward him both shrank, he from a sense of unworthiness, she from the instinctive fear of men which a young girl of her type has deep-planted within her.
"The Eagle's Heart"
Hamlin Garland
Not at least observably....
"Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation"
Lafcadio Hearn