Citations:actuated


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When actuated by selfish and vicious motives, I asked you to undertake my unfinished work, and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by reason and virtue.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * For at bottom — so he told me — he was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more than that, still better than they were.