These people-the very prototypes of the bores you took me away from, with the same fenced- in view of life, the same keep-off-the-grass morality, the same little cautious virtues and the same little frightened vices-well, I've clung to them, I've delighted in them, I've done my best to please them.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
They had squatted by the water-holes, prototypes of the crooked buildings which now recalled them; they had builded the town by the simple device of driving Indian labourers to the task.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
Lincoln in 1860 occupied more nearly the ground held by Clay than that held by Birney; and the men who supported the latter in 1844 were the prototypes of those who wished to oppose Lincoln in 1860, and only worked less hard because they had less chance.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt