And as when a complaint was made to Moses, against those of the Seventy that prophecyed in the camp of Israel, he justified them in it, as being subservient therein to his government; so also our Saviour, when St. John complained to him of a certain man that cast out Devills in his name, justified him therein, saying, (Luke 9.50.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

"It appears then, Davis, by your own confession," said Denbigh, mildly, but in a tone of reproof, "that your frequent acts of intemperance have at least given ground for the steward's procuring your discharge if it has not justified him in doing that which his duty to your common employer required.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

John T. Nichols says in his notes: Just how this species makes use of its somewhat peculiar bill is not very clear.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

Then must the sower go forth and sow, for nature whispers that if he neglects June he will starve in January.
— from The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis

Other benefactors it had, notably John Holland, Duke of Exeter, Lord High Admiral and Constable of the Tower, himself of royal descent.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

This posture was not hard, for in his native jungle, he had often thus obtained a breakfast of venison for his wife and family.
— from Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis

'Deed, mem, an' I hae na juist heard quite sae muckle as that.
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

I had now just had a glimpse of it through society, and I was struck by the hypocrisy of some of the people and the conceit of others.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

When Dear Firm received from Floppingham this last brilliant contribution to the records of Commercial Pish, they winked one eye clear to the roots and then dictated the following Appreciation: “We don’t know just when it happened, nor just how it happened, but the Business World today is infested with a new stripe of grafter—the Efficiency Eel, to which School you seem to have a Rhodes Scholarship.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed

He expressed some surprise that I had not joined him and Eda; but, doubtless," added the young man, with a smile, "he was more surprised still when my next letter informed him that I had sailed for Australia.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It seemed likely someone or something had put the hole there, it had not just happened.
— from Cat and Mouse by Ralph Williams