Parson and squire were part of the regular system which could not be attacked without upsetting the whole system; and there was as yet no general discontent with that system, or, indeed, any disposition whatever to reconstruct the machinery which was working so quietly and so thoroughly in accordance with the dumb instincts of the overwhelming majority.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
With the assistance of the printer, let me reconstruct here in the type and narrow measure of the Morning News a column of specimens of Field's political paragraphs.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
These men proceeded to reconstruct the association on a slightly different, and apparently even more democratic, plan.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell