The Terrace Concerts at Versailles--More Inroadson Etiquette.
Nor were these pleasant informal parties the only instances in which, great inroads were made on the old etiquette.
It is clear therefore that the nightwork will not account for the frightful inroads made by disease in the ranks of the soldier.
The former inroads of the Scots were trifling, compared with the wide-spreading desolation which now marked their career.
They had suffered so much loss from the inroads of the Scots that they at last resolved that, if the King would not make peace for them, they must come to terms with the enemy on their own account.
The hatred between the hostile races had been growing more and more bitter, and was fostered by constant inroads on the one hand and cruel laws upon the other.
The union of the crowns of England and Scotland put a stop to the constant skirmishing on the Border and to the devastating inroads which had for centuries embittered the two countries against one another.
When the King of Jerusalem remonstrated, Saladin replied by complaining of the constant inroads made by Renaud de Châtillon.
His campaign during the Mexican War had made serious inroadsupon his health, from which he never entirely recovered.
The duties pertaining to this office may be described as of a twofold nature--the maintenance of law and order, and the protection of the districts against the encroachments and inroads of the enemy.
As might be expected these inroads were not allowed to pass unredressed, as the Scots never missed an opportunity of retaliating.
He often told us how the savage Oens men "when the leaf red," crossed the mountains from the eastern coast of Tierra del Fuego, and made inroads on the natives of this part of the country.
At present, owing to the inroads that have been made by liberals and infidels, most of the churches pretend to be in favor of religious liberty.
If we continue making the inroads upon orthodoxy which we have been making during the last twenty-five years, what will it be fifty years from to-night?
He made a vow against love and its train of struggles, disappointment and remorse, and sought in mere sensual enjoyment, a remedy for the injurious inroads of passion.
Many were doubly eager to quit a nook of ground now become their prison, which appeared unable to resist the inroads of ocean's giant waves.
Their incursion would hardly have been felt had they come alone; but the Irish, collected in unnatural numbers, began to feel the inroads of famine, and they followed in the wake of the Americans for England also.
We found Raymond in his dining room with six others: the bottle was being pushed about merrily, and had made considerable inroads on the understanding of one or two.
A few centuries ago Europe feared the inroads of Eastern barbarians; now, any such fear would be ridiculous.
These movements coincide with the inroads of the Picts and Scots recorded by Roman writers.
Although this second invasion proved successful, the power of the Tuath-de-danaans was now on the wane, and the height of civilisation to which they had raised the island rapidly declined before the inroads of the Scythians.
Their inroads on the settlements were characterized, as usual, by extreme stealth and merciless ferocity.
Such incidents as these were not exceptional; one or more, and often all of them, were the invariable attendants of every one of the countless Indian inroads that took place during the long generations of forest warfare.
They rarely made war or peace as a unit, parties frequently acting in conjunction with some of the rival European powers, or else joining in the plundering inroads made by the other Indians upon the white settlements.
Captain Morgan used to send forth daily parties of two hundred men, to make inroads into all the fields and country thereabouts, and when one party came back, another consisting of two hundred more was ready to go forth.
Morgan, from the rendezvous at the Isle la Vache, had coasted along the southern shores of Hispaniola and made several inroads upon the island for the purpose of securing beef and other provisions.
The first thing aimed at was to protect the south of the empire against the inroads of the Caucasians, and to this end the armed line of the Kouban and the Terek was organised and finished in 1771.
Those Christian edifices, too, which we have alluded to, belong to a later period than the inroads of the Tatar hordes, consequently they can only testify in favour of our views.
Certainly there are, and I shall now describe them in such a manner as to aid all who find themselves annoyed by the inroads of the bee-moth.
Even the inroads of Mongolian tribes into Russia and the East of Europe kept up a literary bartering between Oriental and Occidental nations.
With the buffalo gone, and their pony herds being constantly decimated by the inroads of horse-thieves, they must soon adopt, in all its varieties, the way of the white man.
Poland and the Porte had continued undisturbed, save by the occasional inroadsof the Crim Tartars on the one side, and the Cossacks of the Dniepr on the other, which neither government was able entirely to restrain.
The Austrians, at the first trustworthy news of the French inroads into Piedmont and Lombardy, were certain to concentrate either at Turin or Alessandria.
Collective buying has also been a factor in offsetting the inroads of the "chains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inroads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
