"Prepense" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hat, with feather to match, looped up over the right ear with a pearl brooch, and therein a crowned E, supposed by the damsels of Bideford to stand for Elizabeth, which was whispered to be the gift of some most illustrious hand. This same looping up was not without good reason and purpose prepense; thereby all the world had full view of a beautiful little ear, which looked as if it had been cut of cameo, and made, as my Lady Rich once told him, "to hearken only to the music of the spheres, or to the chants of cherubim." Behind the said ear was stuck a fresh rose; and the golden ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... out Gertrude. 'O, Ethel, you did out of malice prepense make me vow it should be for ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge |
