1667, John Milton, “Book LIX”, in Paradise Lost.[…], London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter[…]; [a]nd Matthias Walker,[…], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, →OCLC, lines 988-990:
Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old / With falt'ring speech and visage incomposed / Answer'd.
1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302,
One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,
1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82:
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.