At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I hadconceived a sort of affection.
1890, Thomas Tyler,Shakespeare's Sonnets[1], D. Nutt, page81:
There are, moreover, grounds for thinking that the Rosaline ofLove’s Labour’s Lost was originallyconceived of by Shakespeare aspale with black eyes—...
1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number20, page12:
The car cost $700 initially. The subsequent cost was mounting out of sight, but I hadconceived an extraordinary fondness for the bug, and my sother hadconceived an extraordinary fondness for me, so she allowed my passion for the car to ransack our savings.
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come toconceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
Remember, if you please, that the man you call slave sprang from the same seed, enjoys the same daylight, breathes like you, lives like you, dies like you. You can as easilyconceive him a free man as he canconceive you a slave.
