Edward Everett Hale (1822- ——): Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten," 1870).
Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.
Isaac H. Bromley (1833- ——): Editorial in the "New York Tribune," Feb. 16, 1877.
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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
Horace Porter (1837- ——), —a bon-mot in the Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884.
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Richard Rumbold, on the scaffold, 1685. History of England (Macaulay), Chap. v.
The last link is broken
That bound me to thee,