Women who had lived some time in the world knew better, than to encourage such skittish pranks in young wives.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
But one thing he would venture to tell me; and that was this-that, however desirous young skittish ladies might be to have their way in this particular, it was a very bad setting-out for the man; as it gave his bride a very high proof of the power she had over him: and he would engage, that no woman, thus humoured, ever valued the man the more for it; but very much the contrary-and there were reasons to be given why she should not.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
We were so skittish that, when the bell rang about eight o'clock, we let it ring four times more before we answered it; and when the ringer claimed to be an Eta Bita Pie from Muggledorfer who had come over to attend Siwash, we made him repeat pretty nearly the whole ritual before we would consider his credentials good.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch