The Soviet Union was ferociously reviled by the reaction and its coryphaeus at the service of the exploiters.    From Wordnik.com.  [MASS RALLY] Reference

It will be remembered that he was the martial coryphaeus who led my little army to war against Mirambo, chanting the battle-song of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

Hey, Rob, I love your far-out "what if -?" scenarios, Naturally, I'd enjoy the tiger getting his tail really twisted, but don't you feel Nancy would make a fine female first fiddle, a commendable, callipygian coryphaeus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Republicans Find the Courage to Tell Bush and Cheney It Is Time To Go?] Reference

Walter Roman was not only "a member of the International Brigade in Spain" but also a prominent coryphaeus of the Communist Party and of the Comintern, who became also, after the communist take-over of Romania, the political leader of the Romanian army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survival in Romania] Reference

They left their share of the dialogue to the coryphaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gryll Grange] Reference

The pianist also spoke about the work of the great coryphaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today.Az] Reference

The great coryphaeus of the South-Galatian theory is Prof. Sire W.M. Ramsay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

A singer could never tolerate a lyre that did not match his voice, nor a coryphaeus a chorus that did not chant in tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

Herophilus, ille anatomicorum coryphaeus, as Vesalius calls him, was a pupil of Praxagoras, and his name is still in everyday use by medical students, attached to the torcular Herophili.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

In time it became the custom for the leader, or coryphaeus, to be answered by one single member of the chorus, the latter being thus used merely for the chanting of commentaries on the narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference

Among birds, the ferruginous lark (Certhilauda burra, VU) and Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri, LR) are strictly endemic to thisecoregion, while another five species are near-endemic: Karoo chat (Cercomela schlegelii), tractrac chat (Cercomela tractrac), red lark (Certhilauda burra), Karoo scrub robin (Cercotrichas coryphaeus), red-headed cisticola (Cisticola subruficapillus), and the Namaqua prinia (Phragmacia substriata).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nama Karoo] Reference

These include long-billed pipit (Anthus similis moco), mountain chat (Oenanthe monticola nigricauda), mountain nightjar (Caprimulgus poliocephalus koesteri), western green tinkerbird (Pogoniulus coryphaeus angolensis), evergreen-forest warbler (Bradypterus lopezi boultoni), Margaret’s batis (Batis margaritae margaritae), African hill babbler (Pseudoalcippe abyssinica ansorgei), and thick-billed canary (Serinus burtoni tanganjicae).    From Wordnik.com.  [Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference

Mr. Jefferson confronted the coryphaeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

But when the chorus itself formed part of the dialogue, then the leader of the band, the foreman or 'coryphaeus', ascended, as some think, the level summit of the 'thymele' in order to command the stage, or, perhaps, the whole chorus advanced to the front of the orchestra, and thus put themselves in ideal connection, as it were, with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference