"But I think we did very well with them on the cigarette lighters, the horns, and the little booties that hang from the rear-view mirror"

The Russian generals very politely lay down their arms

Did I ever imagine that/as the clouds of the hight autumn sky cleared/I would view the moon through a bamboo...

At This Very Instant You Are Reading This. . . from The Whole Works

A Fighter (by proxy). Wounded General from the front: "Your Majesty, little father of your people, we cannot...

"I made myself very clear to the Japanese" [delegate returning from a trip to promote free trade, 1998] Moir

A Country Bridge, The Construction of This Bridge Seems Very Wonderful to Travellers. It is Formed by Two Vi...

The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks who Embezzled Funds from a French Bank in Yokohama, but were Overtaken by an English Ship as they Attempted to Escape, No. 647 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

A Russian Warship that Our Sazanami had Captured Got Swamped and Was about to Sink, When a Brave Japanese Sailor, Defying the Danger, Recovered the Japanese Flag from the Sinking Ship