While he thus hesitated and Debated with himself, now altering a phrase here, now changing a word there, Captain Martin entered the room, and threw himself into a chair with a more than ordinary amount of weariness and exhaustion.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
During the hour which had just gone by, the question of life and death had probably been Debated.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
But there is plenty of probability for the assertion that her own death had been Debated with the King when her wit delayed it, and his death set her free to marry at last the man from whom the King had snatched her.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue