While the kugé , the old imperial nobility, formerly the governors of the provinces under the Emperors, lived in respectable but often extreme poverty [171] at Kyōto, the landed nobility, or daimiōs, brought, after many struggles, under the sway of the Tokugawas, built for themselves palaces and pleasure gardens in the moated city of Yedo.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

He put the flowers aside and picked up the envelope, looked it over carefully, then, with a peculiarly thin and very sharp knife, he cut the sealing of the flap so neatly that it could be resealed and no one suspect it had been opened.
— from The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

Therefore, problems of chemistry and of physics are for the most part unsuited to early lessons in nature-study.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture