In respect to the wife Mrs. Gaskell commits the curious mistake of first suggesting that she is a complainer about nothing, and then showing her to us as a suffering victim of her husband's folly and of hopeless disease.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Beside this charge of heterodoxy was another of life and conduct unworthy a Christian, which, from the proof, seems to have consisted in not estimating the complainer sufficiently highly and not treating him as he thought he deserved.
"The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America"
Beale M. Schmucker
Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought; In thy dumb action will I be as perfect As begging hermits in their holy prayers.
"Titus-Andronicus"
Shakespeare, William