One time the bankers and moneylenders and brokers in Wall street, sent on a committee to see the Ginneral, to honey fuggle him into not Vetoing the Bank bill.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
If by any chance a dangerous proposal were forced through these mutually distrustful bodies, the Senate was charged with the task of Vetoing it, and if the Grand Elector, or any other high official, strove to gain a perpetual dictatorship, the Senate was at once to absorb him into its ranks.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The Baron, when he heard what had taken place, was most emphatic in Vetoing the suggestion that the Aphrodite should return to Marseilles, and Stamp was equally determined hot to sail through, the Straits of Bonifacio in half a gale of wind.
"The Wheel O' Fortune"
Louis Tracy