And the astute Marquise judged rightly: for she was not only safe herself, but the palladium of her family.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe
Of the fifty-five men present at the Philadelphia convention, not more than half-a-dozen were of the old colonial type, which clung to individual State independence as the palladium of liberty.
"The Wars Between England and America"
T. C. Smith
Better had America been bound hand and foot for ever to the aristocratic tyranny of the mother country, than that she should now become, as she is, the world's palladium of Negro slavery, and the huge breeding house of slaves to endless generations!
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson