But she had promised her father to enter it, and he insisted on her fulfilling that promise; for he believed the Count upright and honourable; yet a word from her would convince him of the contrary-would show him that he had been vilely imposed on; and, by his own acknowledgment, he would yield to her wishes, and she might be happy with the man she loved: but that word her oath forbade her to pronounce.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
He had touched pitch, and to his own conscience and imagination he had been most vilely defiled.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
How vilely he betrayed us.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz