Mozart's contemporaries and immediate successors used the rute in a similar fashion for military effect.

Meredith was what my contemporaries used to call na mby-pamby.

Tifi and his contemporaries clearly intended to satirize the broken Latin used by many doctors, scholars and bureaucrats of their time.

("Veiled" is the word most contemporaries used.)

His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents.

"Whimsy" is the term his Edwardian contemporaries used to describe his work, but our current sense of that word is probably too toothless to nail it.

Because the term 'gothic story' was not commonly used in this period of time, Radcliffe's contemporaries used the term 'romance' to describe her genre.

It is in the form of a giant bell, which contemporaries used to call a clock.

Modern historians sometimes call him "Robert the Consul", for that reason, though he himself and his contemporaries did not use that name.

Though modern scholars to avoid confusion commonly refer to him at this point as Octavian, he called himself "Caesar", which is the name his contemporaries also used.