The marshals retreated, for they had been accustomed to regard with implicit deference the opinion of Sir William Wallace on the laws; and though he now stood in the light of their violator, yet memory bore testimony that he had always read them aright, and, to this hour, had ever appeared to make them the guide of his actions.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
Now, for a man to love, to dote upon, a girl whose father is the violator of his own father's tomb-a wretch who has called down upon himself the most terrible curse of a dead man that has ever been uttered-that would be a fate too fantastically cruel to be permitted by Heaven-by any governing power whose sanctions were not those of a whimsical cruelty.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton
She has been under the extraordinary delusion that her own father, poor Panuel Lovell, was the violator of the tomb, and that she has inherited the curse.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton