Gaston was no fool, and in one vivid flash he saw before his mental vision not only his own discomfiture, the annihilation of all his hopes, but also the failure of King Louis' plans, the relegation of those fifteen millions back into the pockets of His Grace the Duke of Cumberland.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The constant advance toward radicalism and socialism, the lack of great statesmen in Parliament and the presence of professional politicians, the progress of anti-militarism and the relegation of the question of Alsace-Lorraine to the background, left a free field for the growth of social unrest.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
She had never yet heard herself called his dear wife, and felt the immensity of her relegation to her proper place.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim