These common-rights were deliberately left unsettled in order that a source of contention might always be present between the greater and the lesser proprietors, and that the latter might continue to look to the Russian Government as the protector or Extender of their interests.
"History of Modern Europe 1792-1878"
C. A. Fyffe
The Extender of Roman borders divided that region into three parts, according to the testimony of the first Latin class, but he neglected to mention that of these three parts the one decreed for American occupation was the most romantic of them all.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons