When we hear the same Anathemas of luxury in the days of Lucullus and in the reign of Honorius, separated by an interval of more than five centuries, in which the Roman race stamped itself on the page of history and on the face of nature by the most splendid achievements of military virtue and of civilising energy, we are inclined to question either the report of our authorities, or the satirist's interpretation of the social facts.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
In patience the old man had listened to his grandson's tirade, his ravings, his Anathemas.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon
The whole world rose up at first and heaped Anathemas on the name of Templeton Thorpe, and then, swiftly recovering its amiable tolerance of fools, forgot the dead and took its pleasure in "steering clear of the man who was left to hold the bag of gold," as some of the paragraphers would have it.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon