Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]

Bishop Ken styled poetry thought in blossom. [ William Winter ]

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. [ Addison ]

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. [ Coleridge ]

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy: its despotism in desires is called passion. [ Rivarol ]