1997, Caradog Prichard, Philip Mitchell, transl., One Moonlit Night, page 18:

Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.

Each room looked grand, but none of them looked especially “hoardsome.”

When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.