There is accommodation in plenty, for the three hotels, all kept by members of the same family (and each at daggers drawn with the others), give splendid entertainment at moderate rates; and practically all the houses are annexes to one or other of these establishments, so that except during August and September accommodation is never difficult to obtain.
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

But in Ireland, it is proposed to divide the whole country into districts of convenient extent, with a workhouse to each, so that every destitute and infirm person will be within easy reach of adequate relief; and this arrangement is obviously preferable to the various, and in some respects conflicting modes of relief which exist in Holland and Belgium, and will be more effective in its operation.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

While, therefore, it appears that the actual notices of the early commemorative poems do not imply that they were the products of imagination or poetical feeling, or that they excited much popular enthusiasm, and were an important element in the early State, their entire disappearance [40] among a people so tenacious of all their gains, and, still more, the unformed and prosaic condition of the language and rhythm used by Naevius, Ennius, and the other early poets, lead to the presumption, that they were not much valued by the Romans at any time, and that they were not the creations of poetic genius and art.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Governor Morris had written off to England stating the exceeding difficulty of his position.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

Hannibal placed before the standards the Baliares and the light-armed troops, to the amount of nearly eight thousand men; then the heavier-armed infantry, the chief of his power and strength: on the wings he posted ten thousand horse, and on their extremities stationed the elephants divided into two parts.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

But what is the thousand million times more light than ever struck the earth doing in space?
— from Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

If we cast a glance at foregoing decades, we see that ever since the early days of the republic there has been hardly a time when these two forces, the centralizing and the decentralizing, have not been in play.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

Chachrylion , who stands on the verge of the next period, calls for more detailed treatment, especially since the exhaustive discussion of his work by Hartwig.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

The London Playing Fields’ Society, which already possess permanent playing fields in the south-west, north-west and south-east of London, is endeavouring to secure a permanent playing field in the east, so that each district of London may have its own field.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Twice during the day the Huns formed for an infantry attack in front of the Bays, and each time our splendid guns were told of the concentration, and poured shell into the massing Germans with terrible execution, scattering the enemy detachments like chaff before the wind, and thus nipping the attack in the bud.
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman