*1824, (w), The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 31:
The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction ….
1828, (w), A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, book 1:
They had recently considered themselves devoted men, hurrying forwards to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favorites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy.