1853, Samuel Strickland, Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West Chapter , I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof.
1966, Wilfred Healey Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster (page 254)Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores.