New oaths were flying in a new direction, and a voice hitherto unheard was heaping abuse on the abusers; with a strange thrill, the clergyman recognised it as the voice of Tom Ivey, the young contractor who was building the transepts; and he could remain no longer on the stairs.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
But for the abusers of New-Year's day, the pretenders who, with no right to call, come in under cover of the general hospitality of the season-the bores, who on this day, as on all days, are only tiresome-we have no salve, no patent cure.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
I have silenced my fiercest abusers.
"A Victor of Salamis"
William Stearns Davis