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Undertakings like the new Washington temple demand considerable pocketbook enthusiasm from the average Mormon.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Society is to be called "The Secret Society of Literary Undertakings", and it can be known for short as the S.S.L.U.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela

You are about a good Work, I wish you a good End of it, and that propitious Heaven may favour your pious Undertakings.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

When I hear a Man complain of his being unfortunate in all his Undertakings, I shrewdly suspect him for a very weak Man in his Affairs.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Containing a short Review of former Undertakings for the Conversion of the Heathen.

From An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered by Carey, William