1895, John Oliver Hobbes [pseudonym; Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie], The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickensham, New York: D. Appleton & Co., Chapter 12, p. 144,
It was not within the compass of her imagination to even suspect the peril she had escaped, nor was it in the measure of her nature to gauge the inevident strength of the man she thought so destitute of virility.