How little do we know or think of the Unintermitted and unabated torment that the most harmless classes of beasts suffer from the bands of beggars which follow them night and day, demanding blood, and will take no refusal.
"Concerning Animals and Other Matters"
E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
But for some years past his health had been apparently much improved; and, secured as it seemed to be by his Unintermitted temperance, and by a carefulness in regimen which his early feebleness of constitution had rendered habitual, those to whom he was nearest and dearest had, in great measure, ceased to regard him with anxiety.
"Spare Hours"
John Brown