And, therefore, I marvel much at those people which be the maintainers of uses without knowledge, having no other word in their mouth but this use, use, custom, custom.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Their maintainers and foster-fathers.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato
There was a battle between them, and at last they agreed to distribute their land and houses among individual owners; and they enslaved their friends and maintainers, whom they had formerly protected in the condition of freemen, and made of them subjects and servants; and they themselves were engaged in war and in keeping a watch against them.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato