I didn't mean to do anything, I really didn't; but the dentist pulled my tooth out so quickly, that very first day, and so instead of coming home I went to Lucerne-" "To-" "Yes," she nodded, in a frenzy of haste to get it all said, "to Lucerne-I couldn't tell you why, but I did-I seemed pushed there, and after a little while I got engaged, and I didn't in the least mean to do that, either, really I didn't-but somehow-" Was there any use trying to tell him about the white and silver cake and the seven witnesses and the undoubting kind Herr Dremmel and all the endless small links in the chain?
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
undoubting the extent of her knowledge, her power, her gracious surveillance, he knew she would come, to offer a splendid exchange for death.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
For this method-to leave off hinting at it and playing round it-is one of almost endless accumulation of individually trivial incident, detail, and sometimes observation, the combined effect of which is to produce an insensible but undoubting acceptance, on the reader's part, of the facts presented to him.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury