One noticeable instance, however, to our mind, where the too frequent outrageousness is replaced by an exquisite study of character, is in the face of the fair authoress who, when the gallant Colonel, anxious to break the ice, and full of the fact that he has just been made a proud father, asks if she takes any interest in very young children, replies, "I loathe all children!"
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
I will destroy him for his outrageousness.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
There comes a moment when the very outrageousness of what you are doing makes you redouble your blows.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo