Consequently there were no large expenses, no one received any money in payment for services, and the storage of goods was free.
— from The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt An Illustrated and Detailed Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-1915 by P. E. (Percival Edgar) Deane

Meanwhile, the local authorities—those of local election, not of royal appointment—were yet outwardly noncommittal.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

Over the irregular squares of this rough chess-board a more or less entangled network of rights and interests must be extended.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff