And Love and Death and the other powers here exercise a sort of sly injustice, the penalties of which-for this injustice awards no compensation-are perhaps nothing but the whims of fate....
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
The labourer must sell his labour or starve, and may be obliged to take such terms for it as leave him without the means of enjoying the rights which society awards him, and discharging the duties which society claims from him.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The awards, of course, depend much upon the individual character of the chiefs; and there are but few who have not exhibited horrible proofs of cruelty.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham