His life in the streets of New York had made him no stranger to accidents of a more or less tragic nature, and he had seen too many violators of the law seeking to escape the consequences of their own acts not to grasp the situation instantly.
"The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp"
Thornton W. Burgess
And yet was there ever known such horrid violences and confiscations as instantly followed under the very persons now in power, many of them leading members of that Assembly, and all of them violators of that engagement which was the very basis of their republic,-confiscations in which hundreds of men, women, and children, not guilty of one act of duty in resisting their usurpation, were involved?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
"But all the world will see her as Hebe," sighed Philometor, "and proclaim us-the sovereign protectors of the worship of Serapis-as violators of the temple, if Asclepiodorus leads the cry.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers