"99" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said slowly, "and I am also going to give you permission to change your mind after I have told you something about DeBar, whom we know as the Seventh Brother. I repeat that, if you go alone, it's just ten to one that you don't get him. Since '99 four men have gone out after him, and none has come back. There was Forbes, who went in that year; Bannock, who took up the trial in 1902; Fleisham in 1904, and Gresham in 1907. Since the time of Gresham's disappearance ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood
... firmly held. So now, although Republicans admitted that it was "morally certain" that the Democratic party, holding together, could carry the election,[98] yet these men from the Cotton States could not take victory and Douglas together.[99] It had actually come to this, that, in spite of all that Douglas had done for the slaveholders, they now marked him for destruction at any cost. Many also believe that they had another motive; that they had matured their plans for secession; and that they did not mean to have the scheme ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... [99] Plutarch says that Caecilius was an emancipated slave, and a Jew, which could not have been true, as ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... Page 99.—Michael Drayton frequently visited Sir Henry Rainsford at the Manor House, Clifford Chambers. This gentleman had married Anne Goodyere of Polesworth, whose parents were Drayton's patrons. She was the "Idea" of his sonnets. (See introduction ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes
... that Tacitus wrongly writes "quantum" as the corresponding adverb to "tanto," "quantumque hebes ad sustinendum laborem miles, tanto ad discordias promptior" (Hist. II. 99). It was a common custom among the Romans to use "quantum," if they preferred it, to "quanto," and to follow it with "tanto": at any rate it occurs in Livy twice, if not oftener: quantum augebatur, tanto majore (V. 10);—quantum laxaverat, tanto ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
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