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Some one, with a memory of other days, asked concerning the liberation of El Mocho, when El Capitan replied: "El Mocho is not to be trusted," meaning, no doubt, in his mind that he did not propose to give such a dangerous rival opportunity to be in his way.
— from Where Duty Called; or, In Honor Bound by George Waldo Browne
You must really expect me, if not to sleep and snore aliquando , at least to nod in the course of some thousand pages.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot
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