"It is no longer the effort to conquer the impossible, which endeavor saps our vital forces; it is a contingency which study and common sense strip of all aleatory principles, in order to give a form which becomes more tangible and more definite every day.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Yoritomo-Tashi
I only expressed the opinion that such an aleatory process seemed an unworthy method in arbitrations, etc.
"Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Last Updated: February 6, 2009
The word aleatory, whether used in its original and limited sense, or in its derived extension as a technical term of the civil law, was appropriate and convenient; one especially likely to be remembered by any person who had read Mr. Sumner's speech,-and everybody had read it; the secretary himself doubtless got the suggestion of determining the question "by lot" from it.
"Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Last Updated: February 6, 2009