None the less Babylon, the proud city of muddy clay, with its paltry splendours of unbaked and painted brick, found itself rebuilt in marble and granite, to the utmost confusion of the Nabopolassars, the Belshazzars, the Cyruses, and the alexanders.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
We have now taken the governing power from the individual, bestowing it on the whole people, but at first we had to have our Attilas, our Napoleons and alexanders.
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
"'Old Squar' alexanders is the war chief of the hamlet, an' him an' the two other selectmen c'llects themse'fs over their toddies an' canvasses whether they permits this wizard to give his fiendish exhibitions in our midst.
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis