Placing his men around the Æquian camp, he told them to raise the war-cry, and at the same time to begin digging a trench and raising a mound, on the top of which the stakes were to be driven in.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith

The strong man appeared in the very antithesis of monarchy—Porfirio Diaz; and the autocratic régime —almost monarchical except in name—in the military-civil government which followed.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

Consetena had painted half a dozen pictures that were displayed every year at the annual show of the Smyrna Agricultural Fair and Gents' Driving Association; therefore, admiring relatives accepted Mr. Tate as a genius, and treated him as such with the confident prediction that some day the outside world would know him and appreciate him.
— from The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day

He has explored portions of that continent as far down as the azoic rocks, and made many important discoveries as to the past life of the globe.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus