Asses, still so familiar to the traveller, were the usual beasts of burden, and were owned in great numbers by the rich, although rash controversialists have pretended that, as being unclean, they were not tolerated in the land.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
On the separation of the State College from the Kentucky University, after a bitter sectarian controversy in which he manfully defended the Transylvania trusts-little understood by some of the controversialists-he remained with the State College at the head of the Chemical Department.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
Of course an immense number of other arguments circled round this-in fact, most of the arguments that are familiar to controversialists at the present day; but the centre of all, to Anthony's mind, as indeed it was to the mind of the civil and religious authorities of the time, was the question of supremacy-Elizabeth or Gregory?
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson