It is an inconsiderable inroadso far as most popular books--novels and the like--which have circulation are concerned.
So far as it goes, the privilege of importation is an inroad on the rights given to the copyright proprietor.
The king had defied him, which was tantamount to a declaration of war; alleging that he had made an inroad upon the royal domains.
Again: an inroad of locusts or snails takes place.
Then in 1018, with a very large force, he proceeded to India again, extending his inroadthis time to the great Hindu cities of Mathra on the Jumna and Kanauj on the Ganges.
These lords were well pleased on meeting with each other, and declared they would never return to their homes without making an inroad on England, and to such an effect as would be remembered for twenty years.
He avowed that his inroad on Tynedale was fully justified.
The white feather, that emblem of cowardice in other lands, forms the boast of their murderous exploits; and the system of the noble art of war would seem to consist in the merciless destruction of the enemy by sudden inroad and surprise.
The motorist may be fined in five times the amount inflicted on the vanman, but to the one the sum only represents a small inroad on his means, while to the other it represents something like a week's wages.
Even a small fine makes a serious inroad in his day's earnings, and the loss of time attending the court docks him of the pay by which he might discharge the fine.
Retaliatory inroad of the Parthians into Syria under Pacorus, the son of Orodes.
The kingdom, however, was still infested by the Danes, who made an inroad and sacked Winchester, but were there defeated.
The old man expressed neither resentment nor surprise at the inroad that had been made on his chest, though he did manifest some curiosity to know how far the investigation of its contents had been carried.
Something more may turn up from this inroad of the red-skins than they bargained for.
There was a constant inroadof shady individuals who, on the pretext that he was "the people's poet," drained his purse and his cellar.
Nor could her ordinary dresses and furniture, which I happened to see in April, 1858, when they were sold by public auction at her apartments in the Place Royale, have made a considerable inroad on her earnings.
While every one's attention was turned to the Macedonian war, and at a time when people apprehended nothing less, a sudden account was brought of an inroad of the Gauls.
I think the Prince of Wales began his inroad into the hearts of the populace on this occasion.
For the present, however, their inroad into the north-central districts dealt one more blow to the power of the French Jacobins and their black friends.
That he spoke thus against them was but a further carrying out of his mission, a further inroad upon the kingdom of that Beelzebub.
The new Bank of British North America, one of the finest bank buildings in Montreal, is another illustration of what is continually happening, the steady inroad of the big building upon the small.
The references on this projected inroadof the French are given by Parkman (Frontenac, p.
At Three Rivers, the small means in hand have been used in fortifying the place, from fear of an inroad upon it.
And last, without those towers and at their foot, Dig we a trench, which compassing around 405 Our camp, both steeds and warriors shall exclude, And all fierce inroad of the haughty foe.
Thus the Immortals, ever-blest, impell'd Both hosts to battle, and dire inroad caused Of strife among them.
He, by turns, 680 With desperate force the Trojan phalanx dense Facing, repulsed them, and by turns he fled, But still forbad all inroad on the fleet.
A slab of stone prevents the inroad of wild beasts.
The next inroad made by the English showed the vanity of Evers's hopes.
He suddenly resolved to make an inroad into England, attended by some of the borderers; and he carried Perkin along with him, in hopes that the appearance of the pretended prince might raise an insurrection in the northern counties.
She is quite right in resisting any lowering of wages, but she will have to accept this inroad into the trades of these exceptionally placed married women.
And thus members of every trade organization live in dread of the inroad into their city or their state of crowds of unorganized competitors for their particular kind of employment.
Also we find that no general gathering of organized workingmen could take place without the question of the inroad of women into the factories being hotly debated.
