And has it not been printed in the last manual of our national literature, in the chapter treating of the national novel: "If we ask which epoch in German history might be best suited to combine the local with the national interests, we must begin by excluding the middle-ages.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Most of our Negroes live in the South, but the Negro is no more a purely southern question than Japanese immigration is a purely Californian problem.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

The act also defined the relations between the company and the municipalities (or other new licencees) in the event of competition.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon