It drew from Coleridge, who previously had seen in the Revolution the dawn of a nobler era, an indignant protest against the prostitution of the ideas of 1789: Oh France that mockest Heaven, adulterous, blind, Are these thy boasts, champion of human kind?
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
He baptized children and listened to the confession of the adulterous in thought.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
If Jesus Christ and Socrates both were to meet the adulterous woman, the words that their reason would prompt them to speak would vary but little; but belonging to different worlds would be the working of the wisdom within them, far beyond words and far beyond thoughts.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck