Out of the house he plumped, to the waiting double-header of locomotives attached to the rotary, and the other engines, parked on the switches, with their wedge ploughs, jull-ploughs, flangers, and tunnel wideners.
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
Various
Through the courses of these revolutionary changes, the Hills, Goulds, Harrimans, wideners, Weyerhausers, Guggenheims, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Morgans did to the American economic organization exactly what Napoleon did to the French political organization-they took possession of it.
"The American Empire"
Scott Nearing