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 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * My conscience presently checked me in that inquiry, as if I had blasphemed, and methought it spoke to me like a voice: “Wretch! dost thou ask what thou hast done?


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorious!