The prospect of visiting the city from which foreigners had been rigidly excluded ever since the ports were opened in 1859 was enticing, especially as we were now being invited thither by the very people who, we were told by the Tycoon's officials, had all along tried to keep us out.
— 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

How much more true, then, must all this be, when the one is not only under the authority of the other, but has it inculcated on her as a duty to reckon everything else subordinate to his comfort and pleasure, and to let him neither see nor feel anything coming from her, except what is agreeable to him.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Note 37 ( return ) [ Totam illam veterem et squalentem sylvam legum novis principalium rescriptorum et edictorum securibus truncatis et caeditis; (Apologet. c. 4, p. 50, edit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Thérèse de Blainville Blainville Terrebonne David Morris St. Thomas, East Lanoraie Joliette Louis Voligny * St. Thomas, West Yarmouth Elgin, E. R. E. Ermatinger † St. Timothée Beauharnois
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1865 by Canada. Post Office Department

Thérèse de Blainville Blainville Terrebonne David Morris St. Thomas, East Lanoraie Joliette Calixte Cloutier * St. Thomas, West Yarmouth Elgin, E. R. E. Ermatinger † St. Timothée Beauharnois J. B. Scott [53] St. Tite Champlain P. O. Trudel † St. Urbain Chateauguay J. B. Mathieu † Ste.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1866 by Canada. Post Office Department

As father and daughter have caught sight of each other on their respective errands, each suspects the other of being the thief, and in a sorry scene the father, on the condition of being permitted to read the letter, which turns out to be a trivial note, informs Alcestes that Sophia is the delinquent.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Red Eagle eagerly seconded Tecumseh's efforts, and his influence won many, especially of the young warriors, to the war party in the nation.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston

Beauregard expressed regret, and then remarked, 'Everything else seems to be going on well on the right.'
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

“Well, I don’t really exist either,” says the Captain, “which seems to meet that.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Surely there was some mistake; she puzzled over the problem, recounting each event since the conclusion of dinner, and finally convinced herself that her recollection was not at fault.
— from The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy

The Grand Duke of Russia, who had indeed been its rightful emperor ever since the murder of his father twenty years before, but who had been compelled to postpone his claims to those of his ambitious and unscrupulous mother, Catherine II., had conceived a desire so far to imitate the example of his great ancestor, the founder of the Russian empire, Peter the Great, as to make a personal investigation of the manners of other people besides his own.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Arndt, speaking of his power to detect at sight (when seen at a distance) Russians, English, etc., says that Von Stein replied thus in his surprise.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey