The purveyors of news in those days could use without fear of detection a licence which would not be tolerated now.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
So, again, when Mr. Darwin and his followers deny design and effort to have been the main purveyors of the variations whose accumulation results in specific difference, they do not entirely exclude the action of use and disuse-and this at once opens the door for cunning; nevertheless, according to Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, the human eye and the long neck of the giraffe are alike due to the accumulation of variations that are mainly functional, and hence practical; according to Charles Darwin they are alike due to the accumulation of variations that are accidental, fortuitous, spontaneous, that is to say, mainly cannot be reduced to any known general principle.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
The butchers in other cities are generally only purveyors, and never dispute the honours of the show-yard with the grazier or breeder.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie