And Adolphus was the master-spirit in his family.

Sir Adolphus is a very extraordinary man; a man of boundless curiosity and unwearied diligence.'

He is ever, whether good or bad, the instrument of Divine Providence, Gustavus Adolphus was the instrument of God in giving religious liberty to Germany.

The Thirty Years' War, of which Gustavus Adolphus was the greatest hero, was the result of those religious agitations which the ideas of Luther produced.

Adolphus was a martinet ... 1916.

Gustavus Adolphus was too good a judge of merit to reject with coldness the offers of one who might be so important a friend.

Gustavus Adolphus, who began presently to imagine the duke had made his peace with the emperor, and so would either be his enemy or pretend a neutrality, generously delivered him his town of Spandau, but immediately turns about, and with his whole army besieges him in his capital city of Berlin.