“Completely besotted by her own reflection in the mirror, she is Narcissus, doomed to destroy herself with love.”

“When she falls asleep, there she is, a besotted heap tumbled anyhow into bed, snoring and grunting like a pig.”

“Not a soul among the workers remembered that man who, though early besotted by beer, had been in his way a leader and a prince before the time of the mutinies at Oudenove and the hanging of his minion.”