We may explain the Modus operandi of the great offering in any of these ways, for the Scripture presents it in all of them-but the great thing is to accept it; for by the nature of our mental constitution, such an acceptance, whether with or without an intellectual explanation, affords the assurance which we stand in need of; and building upon the Foundation we can safely rear the edifice of our future development.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
Now she felt she had established a sort of Modus vivendi which would not involve her in the horrors of a formal engagement, with the concomitants of dissension and bitterness that she had noticed in friends' families on such occasions.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
All enduring forms establish a Modus vivendi with their surroundings.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler