[Pg 467] CHAPTER I "AMERICA HAS A HEMISPHERE TO ITSELF" When, after a long and fatiguing journey, Thomas Jefferson reached Monticello in the spring of 1809, he was in his sixty-third year and had well earned his "quadragena stipendia."
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

Latterly Madame Veuve Sauvage had given up all work to them; she was now in years, and had well earned her rest.
— from Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Among other discontents was the knowledge that he did not have enough money with him to pay his fare back to New York, and he would either have to borrow from someone in Philadelphia or wire to his office for funds.
— from The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

If it needs be that Italy obey you against her will, exile her population and replace it with serfs."
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

"Abandon ye all hope who enter here" should have been written over its door.
— from South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady

In Pennsylvania there is a toad which has occupied the same back-dooryard for over ten years, and he will eat his own weight in “bugs” in a very short time.
— from New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades by Daniel Carter Beard