It would also show up Mr. Root’s nonsense about “the patient and unconsenting millions,” so shamelessly flouted in the presidential [ 377 ] campaign of 1900, and his pious Philippics against delivering said millions “into the hands of the assassin, Aguinaldo,” 19 and would reveal the truth confessed by Secretary Root in a speech made to the cadets at West Point in July, 1902, after the trouble had blown over, in which, apropos of the valor and services of the army, he referred proudly to its having then just completed the suppression of “an insurrection of 7,000,000 people.” — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
a darned sight more Irish than half
My name, however, is O’Hagan, and I was born in County Clare; and though my father was only a peasant, I’m a darned sight more Irish than half the people who possess titles and big estates in the old country to-day. — from The Banshee by Elliott O'Donnell
a durned sight more important to him
"I have read some'ers," said Mr. Scraggs, "that some man whose name was a durned sight more important to him than it is to me, for I've plumb forgot it, said that he never begun nothin' unless he could see the end of it." — from Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips
a devilish spirit more inhuman than heathens
In it he speaks of “a certain new and pestilential sect in our parts, differing from all the faithful in the world, filled with a devilish spirit, more inhuman than heathens or Jews, who pursue the priests and bishops of the Most High God equally in life and death, by spoiling and rending the patrimony of Christ in the diocese of Ossory, and who utter grievous threats against the bishops and their ministers exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and (by various means) attempt to hinder the correction of sins and the salvation of souls, in contempt of God — from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour
a decision so momentous in the history
" In such a happy spirit of good-natured raillery, my petition was provisionally entertained, till I could see the President; and it is one of the curiosities of experience, as I look back upon it now, that a decision so momentous in the history of Utah owed its induction to the wisdom of a woman and was confirmed with a domestic pleasantry. — from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon
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