He didn't take me by surprise, for I never expected that he had the letter about him. I made a pretense of being very much taken aback, and of being quite ready to give in. We settled our business about delivering the letter, and handing over the money, in no time. I was to draw out a document, which he was to sign. He knew the document was stuff and nonsense, just as well as I did, and told me I was only proposing it to swell my client's bill. Sharp as he was, he was wrong there. The document was not to be drawn out to gain money from Mr. Frank, but to gain time from Mr.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
We may easily imagine its purport, since we know of the meditated European coalition against us at she time of our war with Spain. Then the British Ambassador remarked: "I have no orders from my Government to sign any such document as that. And if I did have, I should resign my post rather than sign it." A pause: The company fell silent. "Then what will your Excellency do?" inquired one visitor. "If you will all do me the honor of coming back to-morrow, I shall have another document ready which all of us can sign." That is what happened to the European coalition at this end.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
[Footnote l: See the work entitled "Historical Collection of State Papers and other authentic Documents intended as materials for a History of the United States of America, by Ebenezer Hasard. Philadelphia, 1792," for a great number of documents relating to the commencement of the colonies, which are valuable from their contents and their authenticity: amongst them are the various charters granted by the King of England, and the first acts of the local governments.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
87 b: 'Istae consuetudines pertinent ad Tantone, burgheristh, latrones, pacis infractio, hainfare, denarii de hundret, et denarii S. Petri; ter in anno teneri placita episcopi sine ammonitione; profectio in exercitum cum hominibus episcopi.' See also the English document, Kemble, Cod. The odd word burgheristh looks like a corrupt form of burgrid (the peace of the burh), or of burhgerihta (burhrights, borough-dues), which word occurs in the English document.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
[13] /Calendar of Documents, Ireland/, i., 140. [14] /Calendar of Documents, Ireland/, i., 151-52. [15] /Calendar of Carew Papers/, i., 279-80. [16] Shirley, op. cit., 90-1. [17] Bagwell, /Ireland under the Tudors/, ii., 354. [18] Bridgett, /Blunders and Forgeries/, 229-36. [19] Shirley, op.英文原著 · 《History of the Catholic Church-2》
There was, indeed, no pressing work on hand. Only from time to time the /Referendarius/, who occupied a room to himself next door to theirs, would communicate with them through a hole in the wall, demanding information on some point or asking to be supplied with certain documents. Then the clerks would make a momentary pretence of being busy, and ultimately the scribes would find either the documents or the information which were required.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》