1 Vincent, the Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 2 He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 3 The government of the unreconstructed South was thus put very largely in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau, especially as in many cases the departmental military commander was now made also assistant commissioner.
4 I remember the day I rode horseback out to the commissioner's house with a pleasant young white fellow who wanted the white school.
5 Now, for a week, he was commissioner general of Gopher Prairie.
6 Very soon the whole authority of the commissioners came to be centred in Appius, owing to the favour in which he was held by the commons.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL. 7 The President might also appoint assistant commissioners in the seceded States, and to all these offices military officials might be detailed at regular pay.
8 The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.
9 Forthwith nine assistant commissioners were appointed.
10 Why, Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to--to--an--amicable agreement with Mr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.
11 We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact.
12 Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make as many convicts as possible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY