After returning to our lodgings we had a substantial lunch off the provisions brought from the ships, but our entertainers were not contented till they had made us sit down to a final feast prepared by themselves, just for five minutes, to drink a farewell cup and receive a parting message from the prince.
— 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

; fall of, 83 –7; importance of, 225 –6 Manila-Dagupan Railway, Higgins claim, 101 Manufactures 607 Map of archipelago, see end of volume March, P. C., Major, 238 Mark Tapley, Taft as, 355 Martin neutralization resolution, 648 Masbate, area and pop., 228 Mascardo surrenders, 341 Massacre of Americans at Manila, “plot” considered, 199 Melliza, R., at Iloilo, 159 Merritt, Wesley, General, 46 ; instructions, 50 –2; double-dealing, 78 ; “juggling,” 81 ; receives surrender Manila, 67 , 86 ; advice at Paris, 127 ; complimentary estimate of Filipinos, 190 Miller, M. P., General, Iloilo expedition, 152 –163 Millet, F. D., war correspondent, on insurgent siege of Manila, 67 –9; on Greene’s “juggling,” 80 –1; on inauguration of Malolos government, 99 Mindanao, area and pop., 229 ; distinct problem, 230 –1 Mindoro, area and pop., 228 Mining, 607 Misamis, insurrection of 1902–3, 442 –3 Missionary vote in U. S., darkest thing ahead of Ph. independence, 580 Mitchell, Lieut., 334 Monroe doctrine and Ph., 602 , 654 Moore, Commander, U.S.N., 236 Moros, 230 –1 , 567 –9 , 577 , 583 , 644 Municipal governments, dual, described, 316 –18 Mustin, H. C., Ensign, 236 [ Contents ] N Nazro, Lieutenant-Commander, 236 Negroes, Filipinos not, 364 –5 Negros, area and pop., 228 ; proposed state of, 267 , 636 Neutralization—the “way out,” 647 ; history of, 650 ; pending resolutions proposing, 648 Newlands, F. G., Senator, quoted 356 –7, 610 Newspapers: round robin of 1899, 220 ; present subtle censorship, 440 Newton, H. W., Captain, 334 Ninth Infantry, Balangiga massacre, 377 Northern Luzon (military) “Department of,” Districts of, 252 –8 Nueva Ecija, area and pop., 233 Nueva Vizcaya, area and pop., 255 [ Contents ]
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

That he should be the occasion of the peace made with Holland lately upon such disadvantageous terms, and that he was bribed to it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The severe winter, whether from the ill temperature of the air [arising] from the abrupt transition to the contrary state, or from whatsoever other cause, was followed by an unhealthy summer, destructive to all species of animals; and when neither the cause nor termination of this intractable pestilence could be discovered, the Sibylline books were consulted according to a decree of the senate.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The teacher's union had gotten a hearing for her before the board of the Unified School District to argue for getting her old job back.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Master and man are at length disturbed by footsteps in the passage, where they make an unusual sound, denoting the arrival of unusual company.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

[67] Complaint has this day been made by —— on oath before me, William C. Storrs, commissioner, charging that Susan B. Anthony, on or about the fifth day of November, 1872, at the city of Rochester, N. Y., at an election held in the Eighth ward of the city of Rochester aforesaid, for a representative in the Congress of the United States, did then and there vote for a representative in the Congress of the United States, without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of Section 19 of an act of Congress approved May 31, 1870, entitled "An act, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union and for other purposes.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A grassy hill was [145] before us, sloping down to a cool hollow where a spring bubbled out from beneath a moss-grown old rock.
— from The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey

Collodion (collodium) and flexible collodion are used in surgery, in the treatment of ulcers, skin diseases, to arrest hemorrhages, applied to inflamed areas, etc.
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 5 [May 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

Sir John Hastings drew his wife's arm through his own, and walked with a heavy, steadfast, and unwavering step down the aisle.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But as this cannot be effected without doing manifest violence to the Indian rights, she brings forward arguments to show, that she never acknowledged the independence of the Cherokee nation; that that nation, from the time of the first settlement made by Europeans in America, stood in the position of a conquered people; that the sovereignty consequently dwelt in the hands of Great Britain; and that, on the Declaration of independence, Georgia, by becoming a free state, became invested with all the powers of sovereignty claimed or exercised by Great Britain over the Georgian territory: and further, that in November, 1785, when the first and only treaty was concluded with the Cherokees by the United States, during the articles of confederation, both she and North Carolina entered their solemn protests against this alleged violation of their legislative rights.
— from A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

Fortified by the necessity, common to her class, of knowing thoroughly the more patent side of public affairs; armoured by the tradition of a culture demanded by leadership; inspired by ideas, but always the same ideas; owning no master, but in servitude to her own custom of leading, she had a mind, formidable as the two-edged swords wielded by her ancestors the Fitz-Harolds, at Agincourt or Poitiers—a mind which had ever instinctively rejected that inner knowledge of herself or of the selves of others; produced by those foolish practices of introspection, contemplation, and understanding, so deleterious to authority.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Quite recently three or four workers at Leipzig 101 have drawn up simple directions, the adoption of which would considerably assist in securing a common standard for disinfectant research.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

In addition to this consideration, it was, on the part of the United States, desirable to alter the channel through which the Indians should receive their supplies, and thereby to render them more dependent on the American government.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Not that they naïvely assumed everything perceived by the senses as an individual, in time and space, to be really an individual: they realized that what is perceived by sense as one limited continuum, occupying a definite portion of space, may be in reality an aggregate of many individuals; and they recognized the need of scrutinizing and analysing those apparent individuals in order to test their real individuality; but they held, and rightly, that sense experience does present to us some data that are unmistakably real individuals—individual men, for instance.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey