"To this her friend assented; and while she went to give some orders, and to fetch the crape veil in which she usually wrapped herself, (for even her dress partook something of the mournful cast of her mind) Emmeline, already equipped, went into the lawn, and saw plainly where the stranger had made his way thro' the thick shrubs, and where the flexible branches of a young larch were twisted away, a laurel broken, and that some deciduous trees behind them had lost all their lower leaves; which having sustained the first frosts, fell on the slightest violence."
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle
At least 6 entries in ESTC (1788, 1789, 1799).<br>
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