That two such men should have felt that their work was subject to a painful limitation on one side of it is significant, but it is a fact which may be used with equal force as an argument by the advocates of the old method and the adopters of the new.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray
If they don't like the children they can bring them back, but the poor babies have to stay put whether they like the adopters or not.
"Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman"
Emma Speed Sampson
87. The adopters of these dogmas, of course think it right to supply a nominative whenever they do not find a separate one expressed for every finite verb, and a verb whenever they do not find a separate one expressed for every nominative.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown