Even now it was possible that one or another might have been detained from the chapel, but that she must risk; better that, she thought, than to wait till later, when a prolonged vigil or a wakeful sister might be the cause of frustrating all her hopes and plans.
"My Little Lady"
Eleanor Frances Poynter
What have the Bourbons proved in frustrating their frauds?
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
When therefore the parents, for the purpose of forwarding some trifling personal advantage, or the teacher, for his own ease or caprice, are found indifferent to the kind of exercises used in the school, or to the results of what is taught in it;-doing any thing, or nothing, provided the time is allowed to pass, with at least the appearance of teaching;-they are, in such a case, betraying an important trust; they are heedlessly frustrating the wishes, and resisting the commands of their Master and Lord; they are sapping the foundations of society; and are thoughtlessly and basely defrauding the helpless and unconscious pupil of a most valuable patrimony.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall