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The target is a particularly tempting and well-authorized one for Irish assassins from Swift to Shaw: the smug face of English hypocrisy, personified in this case by a sanctimonious divorce judge named Sir Toby Routh.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as I desire to avoid all not well-authorized distinctions, I shall use the terms Teutonic and Germanic indiscriminately.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

These felicitations come because well-authorized merchants in futures have been put out of countenance from the days of Jonah and Balaam till now.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel