An overwhelming majority opposed the idea of Vindicating the Partition Treaty by arms.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Instead of Vindicating the charms of peerless beauty, they rove about spreading the fame and standing of some substantial tradesman or manufacturer, and are ready at any time to bargain in his name; it being the fashion now-a-days to trade, instead of fight, with one another.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
To several others, on a triumphant round of visits, did she show the Vindicating sentence.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke