Oh, it wasn't all at once, you know, you can't strangle the soul of a man in a hurry-but by the time your sister died, the buildings Joe was putting up were just about as common and cheap as the average play on Broadway-crowd pleasers.
"His Second Wife"
Ernest Poole
Call't not a Plot: The People cry you mockt them: and of late, When Corne was giuen them gratis, you repin'd, Scandal'd the Suppliants: for the People, call'd them Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to Noblenesse Corio.
"Coriolanus"
Shakespeare, William
And such is the blessedness of aiding to sustain a truly Christian home, that no one comes so near the pattern of the All-perfect One as those who might hold what men call a higher place, and yet humble themselves to the lowest in order to aid in training the young, "not as men-pleasers, but as servants to Christ, with good-will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men."
"The American Woman's Home"
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe