Scanted of education as he was, he has in several places frankly and eagerly confessed his early acquaintance with the great older novelists, and his special fancy for Smollett-whose influence indeed is traceable on him from first to last, and not least in the famous "interiors" of which he made far more than his example had done.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Thereat he kissed her hands and yellow head And clipped her fair long body many times; I have no wit to shape in written rhymes A Scanted tithe of this great joy they had.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
She had had no chance to bring up these arrears until now, and she atoned to herself for the delay by making the history very full, and going back and adding touches at any point where she thought she had Scanted it.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
William Dean Howells