... “Because both of them, being legitimate princes, ought to have been kings... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... What was he to do? He glanced aboutas though searching for the tangible form of a legitimate excuse forhis crime; but he could find only the body of the man he had socauselessly shot down...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Resolved, That it is expedient and proper that the foreign slavetrade should be re-opened, and that this Convention will lend itsinfluence to any legitimate measure to that end...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...But I think you did wrong in resigning before you saw me; for then you would have had, probably, a legitimate excuse for resigning...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The public ivory trade among the Fans is carried on in a way more inaccordance with European ideas of a legitimate trade...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...She rolled, which made it precarious for things on the bamboo staging,but still a legitimate motion, natural and foreseeable...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...The hartebeeste and the wildebeeste he learns quickly enough, and of course the zebra and the giraffe are unmistakable; but the smaller gazelles are legitimate subjects for discussion...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...These they seem to consider legitimate objects of commerce...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...We know that originally such a right cannot be legitimate unless it is reciprocal; the jurists say as much...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... However that may be, can men legitimate property by mutual consent? I say, no...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Now, since despotism is inseparably connected with the idea of legitimate authority, in explaining the natural causes of the first, the principle of the second will appear...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... Royalty may always be good, when it is the only possible form of government; legitimate it is never...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...For all these social facts, so spontaneous and free from all levelling intentions, are the legitimate fruits of the instinct of equality...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
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