mateerial

Updated: May 23, 2025

There'd be a reasonable compensation in't. It's a pity," he continued dryly, "that a parson has a mind sae far above purely mateerial conseederation." "It may surprise you," Mr. Thompson returned almost as dryly, "to know that I have to a certain extent modified my views upon what you term material considerations. They are, I have found, more important than I realized."

Bertrand W. Sinclair - Burned Bridges

You seem the lovely shepherdess of this rural scene, but where is your flock?" Shrewd Malcom, near by, watched this scene as the terrier he resembled might have done, and took instant and instinctive dislike to the new- comer. With a contemptuous sniff he thought to himself, "There's mateerial enoof in ye for so mooch toward a flock as a calf and a donkey."

Edward Payson Roe - What Can She Do?