However, the decree which he proposes to set down follows a little lower, in the collection of Raman decrees that concerned the Jews and is that dated when Cæsar was consul the fifth time."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The "Perseus" had met Commander Buckle in the "Cormorant" on his way to Shanghai for the mail, who, having started from Yokohama about the time of the return of the Japanese embassy, reported that the expedition was indefinitely postponed; she had therefore cast off the collier and steamed away at full speed for Yokohama, but falling a little later in with the "Coquette" on her way to Nagasaki, learnt a very different tale, and turning round, had picked up the collier again and brought her on.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The former is the view that has in the main prevailed in English Law; and this seems to me certainly in harmony with the Common Sense of mankind, so far as legal liability is concerned; but I do not think that the case is equally clear as regards moral obligation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

For a long letter, it is better to put the date and address at the top of the page.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Your objective is to download free programs from a large library in Oakland, U.S.A. After having connected to Ulrik, you enter the command 'ftp OAK.Oakland.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

"Doesn't Meg pull fair?" asked Laurie, looking indignant.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

One must notice it; for a lovely lake is not as common a thing along the railways of Australia as are the dry places.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I felt a little low in my mind as I sat up in my room after tea, and when the big, muddy, battered-looking bundle was brought to me, I just hugged it and pranced.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When they give you change for a louis, leave it on the table; to put back one’s change in one’s pocket is an action only worthy of a beggar.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He had had such an enormous practice for forty-five years, that for the last ten he had never put his nose out of chambers for pure want of time, and at last of inclination; and had been so conversant with Norman French and law Latin, in the old English letter, that he had almost entirely forgotten how to write the modern English character.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

From a later letter it appears that the nieces did not pay their visit after all, and what is worse a letter had miscarried, and the aunt sat up expecting them from seven till twelve at night, and Harry had paid for “Faggots and Coles quarter of Hund.
— from Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

More numerous remains are found a little later in the Jurassic, and some in the Cretaceous.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

— The sophists were professional teachers for active life, like Isokratês and Quintilian.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

He carried me as far as Loch Long in his ship.
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton

Her face was large and round and pallid, from a long life in the midst of the marshes.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

And she stepped into the firelight, and looked long into his eyes—and she broke the knife—and between them there passed the promise .
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

That the seed is the reproductive part of the plant was a fact as little likely in itself to strike him as that the stamens were the male organs, or that the leaves were the assimilative and digestive surfaces.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen