Usage examples (11)

• Would the emerging professionalism of the era, as exemplified by military physicians, replace the more genteel expertise personified by the intendance?
• But to return from this digression: Mr. B — advised me to send a requete or petition to the chancellor of France, that I might obtain an order to have my books examined on the...
• "Ah! Monsieur Colbert; you have then nine hundred thousand livres at the intendance?"
• "Tiens! not far from the front, don't know where exactly, where there's an ambulance clearing-station and a sous-intendance -- I met the reptile there."