It had thus become his habit to lurk in the footsteps of those who affix public proclamations in the ways and spaces of the city, and when they had passed on to remove, as unostentatiously as possible, the more suitable pronouncements and to carry them to his own abode.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
The comrades in foreign lands can be assured that, though the German workmen are also protecting their Fatherland, they will nevertheless not forget that their interests are the same as those of the proletariat in other countries, who, like themselves, have been compelled to go to war against their will, indeed, even against their often repeated pronouncements in favour of peace.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
To these epoch-making pronouncements the Assembly added, in 1790, that crimes should be visited only on the guilty individual, not on the family; and that penalties must be proportioned to the offences.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose