He was loved, he was believed in, by the thin mystery of a modern girl, who had known many men with talents, with names, with big reputations.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
It never gets out of wind, carries a bag of reputations made up in cold hash, so that it does not have to stop for victuals.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
At that time it was thought that a satirical paper could be launched into public favour on its abuse of rivals-so that all the drowning journals caught at the straws of the others' reputations.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann