But the whole thickness of some learned counsel's treatise upon Torts did not screen him satisfactorily.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
On the table a forgotten law book lay open at a chapter on Torts, but the young man's eyes were fixed on the blaze, in whose fitful leapings he was picturing, "the thunders through the foothills; tufts of fleecy shrapnel spread along the empty plain"-and in the picture he always saw one face, dominated by a pair of eyes that could be granite-stern or soft as mossy waters.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
"Le absens ont toujours Torts" is the truest proverb in any language, and I felt it in its fullest force when Trevanion entered my room.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)