It may in some cases, especially in hot weather, become so pronounced that the animal will lose flesh in spite of good pasturing, thereby reducing the vitality and rendering it more susceptible to the INROADS of disease.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Their population has apparently varied greatly, partly by reason of the ill definition of the tribe by different enumerators, partly by reason of the INROADS of smallpox.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
Still it was evident that age and sickness were making rapid INROADS on his strength.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston