It has been said that I possess my father's failing in this respect; but, through his example at all times as a warning before me, I have been enabled to regulate it, and to keep it within controllable limits.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Incongruity sparked a scarcely-controllable impulse to hysterical laughter.
"The Short Life"
Francis Donovan
Griqualand West, taken in the belief that Waterboer had a good title to it, was retained after this belief had been dispelled, partly perhaps because a population had crowded into it which consisted mainly of British subjects, and was not easily controllable by a small state, but mainly because colonial feeling refused to part with a region of such exceptional mineral wealth.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce