She had been proud to marry the man whom Charlotte had refused; and to find that man, eighteen years later, still cherishing sentimental memories of her rival, determined to make himself a second father to that rival's child,-ah, well, Martha was a remarkable woman to bear it all so quietly!
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The candid reader can judge for himself, whether the cherishing of such radical opinions is not a crime of sufficient magnitude, to justify all my wrongs and imprisonment!
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
They are often, especially among the Liberals, tradesmen or even workingmen, who take an active interest in politics, without cherishing any parliamentary aspirations for themselves, or any political ambition unless it be for municipal office; but they like, especially if Conservatives, to take for their chairman a man of higher social position.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell