He wanted it to buy almond-rock, but he wouldn't give any of it to Jacob, nor to his sister Elizabeth, nor to reuben, nor to many others, whom he seemed to exclude from almond-rock with rapture.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Of the sons of Jacob, reuben and Simeon are mentioned, to put Levi in his natural third place.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Had he not written "reuben Hallard" here!
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole