But however crazy I may have been as an undeclared suitor, I am going to be much worse now.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The manner in which this undeclared but very intelligible devotion of the heart was received by the fair object of it was such, perhaps, as to justify hope, though it by no means afforded any certainty that the feeling was returned.
"The Vicar of Wrexhill"
Mrs [Frances] Trollope
The object of this prolixity is that it may be borne in mind that Sally never shared her mother's or her undeclared lover's knowledge of the strange mental revival caused-as seemed most probable-by the action of the galvanic battery on the previous day.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan