Then we raised the Fiji Islands, where savages slaughtered sailors from the Union , as well as Captain Bureau, commander of the Darling Josephine out of Nantes, France.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

An attention to the judgment of other nations is important to every government for two reasons: the one is, that, independently of the merits of any particular plan or measure, it is desirable, on various accounts, that it should appear to other nations as the offspring of a wise and honorable policy; the second is, that in doubtful cases, particularly where the national councils may be warped by some strong passion or momentary interest, the presumed or known opinion of the impartial world may be the best guide that can be followed.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

The latter has, indeed, this advantage, that the representations of space and time do not come in their way when they wish to judge of objects, not as phenomena, but merely in their relation to the understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

They were describing how a mouse had jumped out of Nina Fyodorovna's boot when she was dressing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On this account, I stretch out my suppliant hands to your knees, and beg and pray that you do not make a mockery and a joke of our nocturnal rites, nor lay bare the secrets of so many years, into which scarcely a thousand persons are initiated.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

And justice, whose office it is to render to every man his due, whereby there is in man himself a certain just order of nature, so that the soul is subjected to God, and the flesh to the soul, and consequently both soul and flesh to God,—does not this virtue demonstrate that it is as yet rather labouring towards its end than resting in its finished work?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He thus the mighty chiefs addressed Of glorious power and strength possessed: “Arm, warriors, with the spear and bow; With all your speed from Lanká go, For Janasthán, our own no more, Is now defiled with giants' gore; The seat of Khara's royal state Is left unto us desolate.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And whether these Protocols are of Jewish origin or not, whether they represent Jewish interests or not, this is exactly the state of the world, of the Gentile world, today.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But I cannot believe that any Japanese, official or not, could ever have compassed such a treacherous deed.
— 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

I ordered that she should have food and shelter, and she became the jest of our negroes, and formed the subject of the scandal and tittle-tattle of the old fools in our little town.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

To anyone [78] who will give authentic proofs of marriage about 184— between Herbert Farrington, alias Corporal Smith, of the 12th Lancers, and Ann, daughter of Josiah Orde, of Newark-on-Trent.’
— from A Son of Mars, volume 2 by Arthur Griffiths

There is a jar of olives near you,—and pray what will you have?
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

The attitude of our country toward other nations should always be honest and above suspicion, and every good citizen should be jealous of our nation's reputation both at home and abroad.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Dai Nippon is the name given by the natives to their beautiful land, and from this expression, which means Great Japan, our own name for the empire has been taken.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Dress them with claret, white-wine, sack, or juyce of oranges, nutmeg, fine sugar, & a little salt, beat them well 445 png474 together in a fine clean dish, with carved sippets, and candied pistaches stuck in them.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

Such a jumble of offices never got together before in any English government.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

I suppose Jenny, our old nurse at home, would have told me as she used sometimes to do when I was a child, that I had "got out of bed wrong," for I felt cross all the morning.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie