Surely the Confederates in the Southwest have two prizes now before them, well worth the winning; but in the front of battle tarquin is seldom found, and in the rout they must ride far and fast who would reach his shoulders with the steel.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
tarquin, seated in the centre of the picture, receives three volumes from an aged and dignified woman.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
Jucundus gave it as his opinion that it was a very great mistake to strike at any but the leaders of the Christian sect; he quoted the story of King tarquin and the poppies, and assured the great man that it was what he had always said and always prophesied, and that, depend upon it, it was a great mistake not to catch Cyprianus.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
