"[A] circumstance of barbarity, which had made such an impression upon his mind, as disordered his brain, and drove him to despair in a fit of which he had made away with himself, leaving his wife then big with child, to all the horrors of indigence and grief"
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
33 entries in ESTC (1751, 1758, 1763, 1765, 1769, 1773, 1775, 1776, 1778, 1779, 1781, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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Smollett, Tobias. <u>The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for the author, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T55344">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;