So this affair began; inoffensively at the start, for my lord was good- humoured about it.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant 'rencontre' I never heard.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
For Phocion's name was already honorably known; and an old acquaintance of his, who had been his fellow-student in the Academy, Leon, a man of high renown for virtue among the Byzantines, having vouched for Phocion to the city, they opened their gates to receive him, not permitting him, though he desired it, to encamp without the walls, but entertained him and all the Athenians with perfect reliance, while they, to requite their confidence, behaved among their new hosts soberly and inoffensively, and exerted themselves on all occasions with the greatest zeal and resolution for their defense.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh