Back comes the chief in triumph
Who, in the hour of fight,
Hath seen the Great Twin Brethren
In harness on his right.
Safe comes the ship to haven,
Thro’ billows and thro’ gales,
If once the great Twin Brethren
Sit shining on the sails.
Lord Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome (“Battle of Lake Regillus,” xl. 1842).
Twineall (The Hon. Mr.), a young man who goes to India, intending to work himself into place by flattery; but, wholly mistaking character, he gets thrown into prison for treason. Twineall talks to Sir Luke Tremor (who ran away from the field of battle) of his glorious deeds of fight; to Lady Tremor (a grocer’s daughter) of high birth, supposing her to be a descendant of the kings of Scotland; to Lord Flint (the sultan’s chief minister) of the sultan’s dubious right to the throne, and so on.--Mrs. Inchbald, Such Things Are (1786).