It was a rude little equipage altogether, not very well hung, and by no means elegant in its proportions.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The exhaustion of the soil of western Europe which was the result of ancient methods of agriculture, together with the rising standard of living and the competition of other more fertile agricultural regions like Egypt and North Africa resulted in the substitution of the latifundi for small landholdings.
— from The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Lyford P. (Lyford Paterson) Edwards