It has its oracles of law, medicine, and divinity; its wars and alliances.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
You must know that Reb Yechiel was a rich man of the old-fashioned type, he gave his daughters a thousand gold pieces dowry, and contracted alliances with the greatest rabbis, and his latest daughter-in-law was a daughter of the Rabbi of Brisk.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
To them the Americans were indebted for their policy, diplomacy, alliances, agriculture and knowledge, with the peculiar happy mode of holding the land in common or feodal tenure, with property in tenements and moveables.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque