The language of Homer, by its natural and musical flow, by its accumulated wealth of meaning, by the use of traditional epithets and modes of expression, that penetrate far back into the belief, the feelings, and the life of an earlier time, implies the existence of a long line of poets who preceded him.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
All the keen, hard epithets common to the modern day he flung into Neuman's face.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Children afflicted by such features suffer torment from playfellows whose scornful epithets are echoed by the looking-glass.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen