With his second wife he lived many years, beloved of his sovereign, courted by the world, honoured by all, till he was visited by the Destroyer of Delights and the leveller of the Grandeur of this World....
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
Digestion is a great leveller.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Nevertheless, it reads as the work of an honest and affectionate man earnestly striving, not always indeed with success, to avoid that flattery of the great of which the times were so tolerant, but which is peculiarly vain in connection with death, the great leveller.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes