But, however illiberally stated, it is in all probability just, though for a reason unknown to Cook.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
His mother said that he would "ruin her" when she gave an order on her banker to the doctor, who was Tom's guardian, for the sum required for his commission and outfit, but she did not behave illiberally, and gave master Tom a very fair allowance, satisfying her conscience by raising all the rents of her poorer tenants, and grinding down the household expenses more than ever.
"Caught in a Trap"
John C. Hutcheson
It had led her to seek the society of her mother's class; and that class simply would not have her, because she was much poorer than the greengrocer, and, far from being able to afford a maid, could not afford even a housemaid, and had to scrape along at home with an illiberally treated general servant.
"Pygmalion"
George Bernard Shaw