On reading the account of the awful sufferings and privations of the army at certain periods of the Revolution and in view of the glory of the cause and the limited means of carrying on the unequal struggle, an honest man can scarcely believe men then existed who would speculate-yes more-peculate upon suffering humanity.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
That great man little liked that any one but himself should peculate in his dominions, and, in the end, M. de Talleyrand was obliged to quit the Hotel Monaco.
"Recollections of Europe"
J. Fenimore Cooper
I shall now show your Lordships in what manner she made use of her power over the supreme judicature, to peculate, and to destroy the country; and I shall adduce, as proofs of this abuse of her authority, the facts I am about to relate, and of which there is evidence before your Lordships.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.)"
Edmund Burke