1926, (w), A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parades End''), p. 580:
An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair ….
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 59:
Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.