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 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him; sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him.
 * Yes, and did see such things there, the remembrance of which will stick by me as long as I live; especially three things: to wit, how Christ, in despite of Satan, maintains his work of grace in the heart; how the man had sinned himself quite out of hopes of God's mercy; and also the dream of him that thought in his sleep the day of judgement was come.
 * Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter: prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
 * The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
 * He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
 * He only knew that it was quite correct; that everything had happened so; that there he was, alone again, when all the other boys had gone home for the jolly holidays.


 * 2014,, Un tant doç fogier, 2017, IEO Edicions/novelum - IEO, Toulouse/Périgueux, pp. 125-126.
 * A escotar las responsas, a sieis oras dau matin, quau jorn que siá, M. Lestang duerm, ronca, e la maison se pòt esbolhar, remudará pas un quite artelh.