Considering, therefore, the mixed nature of the government of this country, and its representative form, I have looked with admiration at the manner in which the wealth and influence and intelligence were spread over its whole surface; not as in some Monarchies, drained from the country, and collected in towns and cities.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
"I said that the time approached when that ancient line again should claim place among the Monarchies of the world.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
This happened in Europe, and there came political revolutions-first in England, which accomplished it by gradual stages, and then in the French monarchy, and quite recently in a dozen Monarchies and empires, large and small.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair