A single power can rise and, above feudal Complicities, above earthly interest, avenge the oppressed and the weak.
"Là-bas"
J. K. Huysmans
But then Strefford was always having private jokes with people or about them; and Lansing was irritated with himself for perpetually suspecting his best friends of vague Complicities at his expense.
"The Glimpses of the Moon"
Edith Wharton