You have yourself said that our marriage was not a veritable one, but was like the union of associates in business, and now I would inform you it is dissolved: the one is a bankrupt; the other a woman whom you cursed, and who reclaims of you four years of shame and degradation.
"Old Fritz and the New Era"
Louise Muhlbach
After we had reached the foot of the pyramid and turned to mingle with the terrified rabble that surged and flowed through the courtyard of the temple, bearing away the dead and wounded as the sea at flood reclaims its waste and wreckage, a noise like thunder caught my ear.
"Montezuma's Daughter"
H. Rider Haggard
If Heaven reclaims us by the scourge of war, What thanks are due to Paris and Madrid?
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young