The occasion for struggle arose from lack of uniform day-to-day propaganda policy and from an unclear division of authority between the operating agencies.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The principal dimensions of the Great Eastern were as follows: PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT EASTERN Length between perpendiculars 680 feet Length on upper deck 692 " Extreme breadth of hull 83 " Width over paddle-boxes 120 " Depth from upper deck to keel 58 " Draught of water (laden) 28 " Weight of iron used in construction 10,000 tons The ship was propelled by two separate engines, driving respectively paddle-wheels and a single propeller.
— from An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat by John Bernard Walker

[81] All councillors are appointed by the crown and continue in office for life or until dismissed.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

It is partly the effect of hot sun and dry air too rapidly drying up the wound, and also probably the blood is not in too good a state from living on unchanging diet of tinned half-salt beef and tinned vegetables.
— from Baden-Powell of Mafeking by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Raleigh, not noticing the deep colour in her face, led on upstairs, down the corridors, and into the first saloon.
— from Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

There was something, perhaps, of irony in the situation, but Manasseh, like Maimonides, had no littleness of disposition, no inflammable self-love quick to take fire; he loved his people truly enough to understand them and to make allowances, had even, perhaps, some humorous perception of the national obtuseness to native talent when unarrayed in purple and fine linen, or until duly recognised by the wearers of such.
— from Jewish Portraits by Magnus, Katie, Lady

It is partly the effect of hot sun and dry air too rapidly drying up the wound, and also probably the blood is not in too good a state from living on unchanging diet of tinned half salt beef and tinned vegetables.
— from The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896 by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

And never, in twenty-two years of respectable tenancy, had the furtive lodger oozed, under darkness, through the Plush front door by night, or a huddle of sidewalk trunks and trappings staged the drab domestic tragedy of the dispossessed.
— from The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst