[S]ome people . . . have been so short-sighted and reckless as to clamor for an easy dissolution of the marriage-contract. . . . Is it possible that they do not see that this is a liberty which, once granted, would always tell against the weaker sex?
1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 34, in The Way of All Flesh:
Ernest's want of muscular strength did not tell against him here.