This was the hero whose cunning and whose war genius had caused sceptered men to grovel at his feet, and had made stubborn republican Rome his cringing servant.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
I have been led into this digression by the recollection of hearing a very pretty little girl say, that she had been kissed by the filthy old beast Blucher, at Portsmouth, where the sceptered tyrants and their whole train had been to view the English fleet and the naval arsenal.
"Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3"
Henry Hunt
Here twine the immortal wreaths of fame And evermore, from sire to son, Rolls on the sceptered sway, To heirs of old renown, a race of deathless name!
"The Bride of Messina A Tragedy"
Frederich Schiller