We talk and write about the tender passion; we give it all the colourings of sentiment and romance, and lay the scene of its influence in high life; but, after all, I doubt whether its sway is not more absolute among females of an Humbler sphere.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
And now Time, the Humbler of proud beautiful women, had given him his revenge: the portrait, scorned and rejected when the colour and sparkle of life was in the face, had been looked on once more by its subject and had caused her to weep at the change in herself.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
He took a bed for himself in a Humbler and cheaper house farther west, a little nearer to the house of his enemy; and almost all that day he spent in thinking how and where he should obtain the meeting he longed for.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell