But he thanked the Lord that it was so, as he could proceed farther without detection.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
To avoid detection by the authorities, a band of revolutionists settled down in a given district in a body, got personally acquainted with the peasantry about them, and then, after acquiring a sufficient knowledge of their characters, proceeded with due prudence to impart their ideas to those who seemed most trustworthy, hoping in this way to be able, unobserved, eventually to leaven the whole lump.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Gold-dust and clothes are the most acceptable offerings; but when these are not to be obtained, it is perfectly wonderful how large a quantity of rum and tobacco the snakes will consume before they vouchsafe their good offices for the removal of a disease from a cow, a wife, a child, or the detection of a thief, who, not unlikely, has been employed by themselves.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham