With the usual Barefacedness of power not accustomed to find itself disputed, the influence of priests over women is attacked by Protestant and Liberal writers, less for being bad in itself, than because it is a rival authority to the husband, and raises up a revolt against his infallibility.
"The Subjection of Women"
John Stuart Mill
The indignation of the whole city is excited against the usurer; and, finally, Shund indulges a certain filthy passion with such effrontery and Barefacedness that every respectable female cannot but blush at being near him.
"The Progressionists, and Angela."
Conrad von Bolanden