Malta was the synonym of piracy from the earliest times,-a reputation which, as we have seen, the Knights of St. John did nothing to improve.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
It was many moments before the speaker was suffered to proceed; then he repeated the successful epithet at the top of his voice, and drove it home with a synonym; recovering his own composure during a second outburst, and continuing with conspicuous self-restraint.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
And Cleopatra-model and synonym for a worldful of super-women-was very comfortably spared the shame of walking chained and barefoot in a Roman Triumph.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune