As regards long-distance journeys, whilst armies marching by road have often been materially reduced in proportions by the number of men falling out owing to lameness, exhaustion, or other causes, those who reached the theatre of war, representing "the survival of the fittest," were better able to endure the trials and fatigues of the subsequent campaign than if they could have made the journey by rail under conditions involving no strain, but affording them no such exercise and strengthening of their physical powers.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

But riggin' up churches is not in my line.
— from Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody