The military leaders, indeed, with their technical staff training, lagged far behind in a task which would have been accomplished rapidly by experts like Sir Herbert Holt.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume II by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
“He’ll be all right by evening,” Libus said.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
A serious and indeed dreadful disaster, which could not be afterwards repaired, but entailed loss upon loss to the British, occurred on Lake Erie.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
Balnea , a Roman bathing establishment, less extensive than the thermæ .
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin
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