The House could, no doubt, be shorn of the remnant of political authority that it still wields, and it could be deprived of its right to take part in private bill legislation; but it would seem that, except by merely reducing their extent, the nature of its powers cannot be very materially changed.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
The working of such a system manifestly depends on the character and ideas of the man who for the time wields the material force of the Empire.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
We often find that the bold, dashing nature sometimes wields a trembling pen, and that some man eminent for weakness has a defiant penmanship that looks as if he wrote with a splinter of thunderbolt.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage