In some parts of France armed resistance, often systematically prepared, was made to the authorities, army officers again occasionally refused to carry out orders, and on March 6, at Boeschepe, a man was killed.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
Bishop undertakes it systematically once a month in the winter.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
As I now am able to see the matter in a cooler frame of mind, I realize that not only was efficiency carried out in warfare but in looting-for it seems that everything we possessed was systematically classified as good, bad or indifferent-the former and the latter being carefully packed into huge army supply carts, which for five long days stood backed up against our doorstep, leaving only when completely laden with spoils.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard