I'm afraid you won't understand when I say I've very tiresome things to consider. Botherations, necessities at home. The pinch, the pressure in London.

Columba or Colmcille (‘Dove of the Church’) […] built an island monastery far to the north on the island of Iona, which remains one of the best-known sacred placed in the Atlantic Isles; he frequently crossed the sea between his various foundations.

It wasn't that long ago when getting a bank job after school meant you were set for life.

Mr. Hasted, author of the History of Kent, in causing a cellar to be made, found two bodies in armour, with a sword and dagger lying by them: the armour was a helmet, back and breast-piece with cuissets for the thighs.