Finally, in January, 1879, in a controversy with his Cabinet over some military transfers, Mac-Mahon resigned, over a year before the expiration of his term of office.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
It had been owned by all the best men in the neighborhood; but while a great many transfers were noted thereon, no credits appeared, so John Bill was no worse than the rest of them.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
We may indeed know genius from talent by the much more of the invisible which it transfers to visible line.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood