But he was the wickedest and most wonderful fighter I have ever seen floor a bully.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
"Have I been awfully wicked-the wickedest girl on earth-or is it a dream?
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Dickens objected to a certain kind of sentimentality exhibited in his day toward criminals, and draws a very suggestive picture full of elements for psychological study in David Copperfield, in which he makes the brutal schoolmaster Creakle a very considerate Middlesex magistrate, with an unfailing system for a quick and effective method of converting the wickedest scoundrels into the most submissive, Scripture-quoting saints by solitary confinement.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes