“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.” FirstsChildrenLittlesRealAliveDangerConsequenceVictimMedicineTerrorMedicalImaginaryFashionable Author:Maria Edgeworth
“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.” KnowsMenWorldLittlesSometimesMotherFoundFatherFeltDoubtHe ManFilledTerrorChiefsSuspectsDarlingPirateWhimIrritatingRetrospectiveSpoilt Book:Power: A New Social Analysis Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.” LittlesWishCommonInspireHeroWorshipFlowDignityTerrorVampireBehaveGrantsScreamEcstaticInvoluntaryHero Worship Book:Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three Source: Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three