This induced me to write her a letter upon the subject, which will be found in my collections, and wherein I gave such of my reasons as I could make public, without exposing Madam le Vasseur and her family; the most determinative of them came from that quarter, and these I kept profoundly secret.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The utterances of the Independent were determinative of popular thought and conviction in an extraordinary degree.
"Recollections of a Varied Life"
George Cary Eggleston
I use the word negro because the descriptive term black or colored is not determinative.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner