They who maintain that the origin of an individual, as well as the origin of a species or a genus, can be explained only by the direct action of the creative cause, may retain their favourite theory compatibly with the doctrine of transmutation.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
They retreated from the Establishment, and gave up all its advantages when the post had become so untenable that these could be no longer retained with honour-or we should perhaps rather say, retained compatibly with right principle; but they did not in wholesale desperation give up other posts which could still be conscientiously maintained.
"Leading Articles on Various Subjects"
Hugh Miller
This was just the impression she wished to convey, and it was usually some considerable time before her boarders grasped the fact that they were dealing with, a thoroughly shrewd, calculating business woman, who was bent on making every penny out of them that she could, compatibly with running the house on such lines as would ensure its answering to the advertised description.
"The Splendid Folly"
Margaret Pedler