| 1. | Bazin and as he had no desire to support a polemic discussion with his friend's valet, he simply moved him out of the way with one hand, and with the other turned the handle of the door of Number Five. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | With reference to the military side--the plan of campaign--that work of genius of which Thiers remarks that, "His genius never devised anything more profound, more skillful, or more admirable," and enters into a polemic with M. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |