Nay, worse, if we remember how the man, for whose love and whose right so much needless agony had been expended, let himself become a disgrace to the very memory of the men who had died for him: if we bear all this in mind, Charles Edward seems to become a mere irresponsible and fated representative of some evil creed; the idol, at first fair-Shapen and smiling, then hideous and loathsome, to which human sacrifices are brought in solemnity; a glittering idol of silver, or a foul idol of rotten wood, but without nerves and mind to perceive the weeping all around, the sop of blood at its feet.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
They were Shapen neither like the Frisian nor the Danish, but so as it seemed to him that they would be most efficient.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
We all of us know how small and apparently insignificant are the events by which the course of our lives is Shapen.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever