The exact legal status of the East Cherokee is still a matter of dispute, they being at once wards of the government, citizens of the United States, and (in North Carolina) a corporate body under state laws.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Veto!—Then again as to Nonjurant Priests: it was decreed, in November last, that they should forfeit what Pensions they had; be 'put under inspection, under surveillance,' and, if need were, be banished: Veto!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

General Grant advised me to meet him, and to accept his surrender on the same terms as his with General Lee; and on the 26th I again went up to Durham's Station by rail, and rode out to Bennett's house, where we again met, and General Johnston, without hesitation, agreed to, and we executed, the following final terms: Terms of a Military Convention, entered into this 26th day of April, 1865, at Bennett's House, near Durham's Station., North Carolina, between General JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, commanding the Confederate Army, and Major-General W. T. SHERMAN, commanding the United States Army in North Carolina:
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The captain that did bring me first on shore Hath my maid's garments: he, upon some action, Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit; A gentleman and follower of my lady's.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

He, upon some action, Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit, A gentleman and follower of my lady's.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Apply this thought now to the United States and its naval needs.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

As she was little injured, she was presented to the British government with the compliments of the United States, and a few years later, when she came to be broken up, a fine table was made from her oaken timbers, and returned as a present to Uncle Sam; and it now stands in the private office of the President of the United States in the Executive Mansion at Washington.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

He threw himself into a chair and took up the morning paper, with its glaring headlines about the unprecedented storm, as if nothing had happened.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

I am sure they thoroughly believe every word they have stated to be true; but then it must be remembered that the effect upon the public mind and the injury done to society by the publication of fallacious and untrue statements, are in no way lessened because their authors suppose those statements to be, in fact, true and correct.
— from The Truth about Opium Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade by William H. Brereton

Indeed, it would be a most impertinent outrage towards your great people and your national government, to entertain the insulting opinion, that what the people of the United States and its national government profess in such a solemn diplomatic manner could be meant as a mere sporting with the most sacred interests of humanity.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

The Office of the Ruling Elders , as they are distinct from teaching Elders , is grounded upon Scripture; and is not an invention of man, but an Ordinance of Christ , (as we have shewed,) and therefore to be submitted unto.
— from A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry by Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall Assembly

It has been found in winter from California to southeastern Louisiana, in the southeastern United States, and in northern Baja California and in southern Veracruz, in Mexico.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

That said, the Syrians have indicated that they want a dialogue with the United States, and in November 2006 agreed to restore diplomatic relations with Iraq after a 24-year break.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)