The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud.

The city of Herculaneum […] held its neighbors in hearty contempt, like the youth who has suddenly found his man's strength, and parades round with a chip on his shoulder.

The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power.

Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.