About 630 Pope Honorius I. addressed a letter to the [Pg 15] Irish Church, in which he reminded the clergy that they were a scanty company inhabiting a remote region, and that it could not be for their interest to remain isolated.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

"Somebody cut it, all right," Red avowed, looking at the shovel in his hands. "
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

He came down to see me off the day I started for Denver, and while we was waitin' for the train he told me the story of his life: How he'd been rustlin' for himself ever since he'd graduated from an orphan asylum in Illinois; the different things he'd worked at before he learned the cow business; and how, when he'd first met Reney slingin' crockery in a railroad restaurant, and married her on sight, they'd started out with a cash capital of one five-dollar bill and thirty-eight cents in change, to make their fortune.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

ROME AS A REPUBLIC The Roman state called itself a republic— respublica —"a thing of the people."
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster