1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ:
Saying "Thermopylae" he thought "Leonidas." "Ay, of course; who knows not that?" The man was puzzled at Aristodemos's sudden wrath. "They gave their lives — those men — every one of them. They were the fore-strength of Salamis.
1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery:
Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace
