she gave him a sneck posset

Before the dore ſat ſelfe-conſuming Care, Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, For feare leaſt Force or Fraud ſhould vnaware Breake in[…]

Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.

1994, Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters, Steven C. Hause (editors), Feminisms of the Belle Epoque: A Historical and Literary Anthology, University of Nebraska Press.