"Can any lady or gentleman recommend a MAN and WIFE (Church of England)?
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

When the lust of gain replaced aspiration, men no longer went crusading or built cathedrals.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

"Why," replied Will, with an equally significant wink, "I think they ought to be taken out to Lander or Green River and made to give an account of themselves."
— from Boy Scouts on the Great Divide; Or, The Ending of the Trail by Archibald Lee Fletcher

Apart from the lack of good red anything, my violas had failed me, and some few dozen little plants were all I could reckon upon.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Lack of good roads and methods of travel made extensive communication between the scattered settlements difficult.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

Therefore just as it is necessary for the reason to appoint a mode to the exterior effect of charity, according to Rom. 12:1: "Your reasonable service," so also the interior love of God requires a mode.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

to travel through the land where all natural things are on [Pg 26] a big scale, a land of great rivers and mighty mountains, a land where even the birds and beasts are of larger size, a land that was peopled many centuries ago with civilised races, when Western Europe was in a state of barbarism?
— from Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie