"I hope not," replied Mary, laughing; "but if I should, that seems scarcely so bad as the sect of Independents in the marriage state; for example, there is Mrs. Boston, who by all strangers is taken for a widow, such emphasis does she lay upon the personal pronoun-with her, 'tis always, I do this, or I do that, without the slightest reference to her husband; and she talks of my house, my gardens, my carriage, my children, as if there were no Copartnery in the case."
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Now, while the present stays with you and me, In love's Copartnery our hearts combine, Life's loss and gain in equal shares to take.
"Robert F. Murray his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang"
Robert F. Murray
When he found that food for his troops was not to be obtained from England, and that he must rely upon his own resources for feeding them, he forthwith commenced business as a corn merchant on a large scale, in Copartnery with the British Minister at Lisbon.
"Self Help"
Samuel Smiles