"Casus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one thing," said Barras a few days later, on the eve of Napoleon's departure. "We haven't any casus belli." ...
— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... ejus. nam. et. hoc. inter. auctores. discrepat. incretus. Servius. Tullius. si. nostros. sequimur. captiva. natus. ocresia. si. tuscos. coeli. quondam. vivennae. sodalis. fidelissimus. omnisque. ejus. casus. comes. postquam. varia. fortuna. exactus. cum. omnibus. reliquis. coeliani. exercitus. Etruria. excessit. montem. Coelium. occupavit. et. a. duce. suo. Coelio. ita. appellitatus. mutatoque. nomine. nam. ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague
... after no end of 'casus' and 'discrimina rerum', I shall sail on Saturday the 10th, per ship Camperdown, ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... both as preferable to war, had the alternative been allowed. To be sure, she was dilatory in settling admitted claims for certain depredations upon our commerce, threatened to take the annexation as a casus belli, withdrew her envoy and declined to accept Slidell as ours, and precipitated the first actual bloodshed. Yet war might have been averted, and our Government, not Mexico's, was to blame for the contrary result. Slidell played the bully, the navy threatened the coast, our wholly ...
— History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews |
