There was a canker in the body politic, requiring to be cut out; and he cut it out: though the patient roared, the wound bled, and the operator was abused by friend and foe.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
She points out the necessity of a just discrimination between what is curable in the body politic and what has to be endured.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The bond between them and everything connected with it was above-board and clear as daylight, and though it was politic to keep it from others, there was not the least sin to hide.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann