She objected to the pressure which Lord John was applying to France, on the ground that in making England's presence conditional upon an assurance that Napoleon would consider terms more favourable to Italian independence than those already signed at Villafranca, her Ministers were abandoning neutrality and intervening deliberately upon the side of Victor Emmanuel.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
He was, therefore, strongly irritated one afternoon, eight days after Charmian had written her note of conditional acceptance to Mrs. Shiffney, when his parlor-maid, Harriet, after two or three knocks, which made a well planned and carried out crescendo, came into the studio with the announcement that a lady wished to see him.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
In the same way, beside the ideal of perfect conformity to the law of reason, there appeared a class of conditional duties.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill