Not that little tamerlane, as his father called him, should die just to be out of her path.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Their uncle was for keeping the Union unbroken, and ran for the Convention against Colonel Richards, who was the chief officer of the militia in the county, and was as blood-thirsty as tamerlane, who reared the pyramid of skulls, and as hungry for military renown as the great Napoleon, about whom the boys had read.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
He was a paladin-Ajax, Don Juan, tamerlane, Mark Antony, Baldur, all rolled into one.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune