The lot fell to Merri; but the whole gang was to have a share in the putative fortune-even Rateau, the wretched creature with the hacking cough, who looked as if he had one foot in the grave, and shivered as if he were stricken with ague, put in a word now and again to remind his good friend Merri that he, too, was looking forward to his share of the spoils.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
The Kemble family, on a wave of putative prosperity, had eight months since gone to housekeeping in a rather pretentious rock-fronted house on one of the many newly graded streets west of Kingshighway.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Apart from the lack of cogent evidence this theory, if it may be so called, is unsatisfactory in that it does not explain why these putative super-men failed to establish within their own stimulating environment any of those great cultures that were set up in places and under climatic conditions which are supposed to have been far less provocative to progress.
"The Black Man's Place in South Africa"
Peter Nielsen