To her and her like, birth itself was an ordeal of degrading personal compulsion, whose gratuitousness nothing in the result seemed to justify, and at best could only palliate.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
The foundation stone, he told me, of my system is the gratuitousness of credit.
"Essays on Political Economy"
Frederic Bastiat
In other words, that which characterises social perfection is the gratuitousness of credit.
"Essays on Political Economy"
Frederic Bastiat