It is, or was in former years the hunter's paradise; but I am informed that the cattle men-the pre-emptor, and the homesteaders, and timber monopolizers-have extended their dominion over the luxuriant grass-producing prairies and the magnificent forests of pine, fir, hemlock and larch, and have driven the game far back into the fastnesses of the mountains.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Who is to be the dedecorum pretiosus emptor?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
"Mi patria Irlanda o Hibernia, Mi pueblo emptor," even metrically, is a better reading than - "Mi patria Irlanda o Hibernia, Mi pueblo es Tax."
"The Purgatory of St. Patrick"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca