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U S N capture
228 ; disturbances of 1901–2 in, 371 ; proposed state of, 267 , 636 Censorship of press, Otis’s, 219 ; round robin, 220 Chaffee A. R., General, reprimanded by Roosevelt, 376 ; differences with Taft, 377 Chapelle, Archbishop, opinion of Otis, 88 ; on the $20,000,000, 133 –4 Chase, Captain, 247 Church property in Ph., 134 ; Taft and, 563 Civil government of 1901, prematurity of, 300 ; general view of, 362 Civil Service of Ph., 473 , 587 Cleveland Grover, on Ph., 183 [ 659 ] Cline neutralization resolution, 647 Coghlan, Capt. U. S. N., capture of Spanish garrison at Olongapo, 44 Collins, Robert, war correspondent, round robin incident, 219 “Colonization, we blundered into,” Taft, 44 , 291 ; apotheosis of, 486 –490 Commerce, 604 et seq.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

us some nice creature
‘My dear Bantam,’ said the Dowager Lady Snuphanuph coaxingly, ‘find us some nice creature to make up this table; there’s a good soul.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

us Saturni non conveniunt
they were miserably slain by Metellus the Roman: so likewise, in smaller matters, they will have things fall out, as these boni and mali genii favour or dislike us: Saturni non conveniunt Jovialibus , &
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

utilitatis specie non cum
40 X. Incidunt multae saepe causae, quae conturbent animos utilitatis specie, non cum hoc deliberetur, relinquendane sit honestas propter utilitatis magnitudinem (nam id quidem improbum est), sed illud, possitne id, quod utile videatur, fieri non turpiter.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

United States no central
We have shown that in the United States no central administration and no dependent series of public functionaries exist.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

unwillingly saying nothing could
As soon as he observed day dawning he ordered his men to drive again to the urd, and try once more if they could get across it with the waggons; but they went very unwillingly, saying nothing could be gained by it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

United States Navy commanding
About sixty miles up Steele's Bayou we came to the gunboat Price, Lieutenant Woodworth, United States Navy; commanding, and then turned into Black Bayou, a narrow, crooked channel, obstructed by overhanging oaks, and filled with cypress and cotton-wood trees.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

us somewhere near Cassville
They represented themselves as former members of Congress, and particular friends of my brother John Sherman; that Mr. Hill had a son killed in the rebel army as it fell back before us somewhere near Cassville, and they wanted to obtain the body, having learned from a comrade where it was buried.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

until some need causes
In the case of the mind all these things are stored and cataloged in the subconscious, and forgotten, until some need causes us to look into our catalog-index and see the experience again, or some association calls it back, relating it to something new.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

universe still never coming
Then he passed out of the atmosphere of the earth, and now he is wandering all over the universe, still never coming into conditions in which he might disappear.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

used somewhere near Château
For instance there was that week in July when the news came to him—through an entirely unofficial but highly authentic channel—that the First and Second Divisions of the United States Army were going to be used somewhere near Château-Thierry as shock troops against the continued German drive.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Until such news comes
Until such news comes, they shall guard him unremittingly; and, if it turn out that Necker still lives, the man who ought to have slain him shall die in his place, at the hands of the four.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

United States no controversy
But as this would also have included the indemnities for captures and condemnations previously made , and it was the intention of the contracting parties, by the second article, to preclude this payment, as depending on a future negotiation, it was necessary to except from this promise of payment all that made the subject of the second article : … as to the payment of indemnities for embargoes in consequence of the cargoes being put in requisition, or with a view to any other political measure which carried with it nothing hostile to the United States, no controversy ever arose between the plenipotentiaries of the two nations.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

under somewhat new conditions
On the other hand, the temperate productions, after migrating nearer to the equator, though they will have been placed under somewhat new conditions, will have suffered less.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

until some new casus
When things get to this pass the duke, who, in his character of councillor-general, is bound to look after the interests of his constituents, relents, and putting aside his personal wrongs calls a parley with the stewards of the races, offers a new prize—an object of art perhaps—or talks of enlarging the stands, and the gage of reconciliation being accepted, peace is made to last until some new casus belli shall occur.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

under such novel circumstances
Yet, as I sprang from the boat, and set my foot for the first time on American soil, I was vexed that these familiar sights and sounds should deprive me of the pleasurable feeling of excitement which I had expected to experience under such novel circumstances.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

U S N Commanding
I. CONE, U. S. N., Commanding Second Torpedo Flotilla, Care Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt


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