Thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury made request: “Replying to your letter of December 20th handed to me by your Mr. —— and in harmony with our verbal understanding I request that the Civil Service Commission hold an examination, giving it such name as it may deem appropriate but so arranged as to exclude all but graduates from law colleges, and who in addition have had not less than three years experience in active practice including trial of cases in Nisi Prius Courts.
— from Vanishing Landmarks: The Trend Toward Bolshevism by Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier) Shaw

Fundamentally different from the regular position is that of consuls in non-Christian States, with the single exception of Japan.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

And if there are no interests or ties to make their presence in their own country imperatively necessary, it is certainly a matter of option with them where they take up their abode.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

The other looked up sharply at the speaker from under his hood, and went on with his occupation, saying,— "He that despises his enemy is not wise; he that reviles a people in their own country is not wise; for sands as well as walls may have ears.
— from The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830 by Edward Ledwich Mitford