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

From Time Magazine Archive

A few years before his death, Mr. Smith engaged in some considerable Undertakings; in all which he raised expectations in the world, which he lived not to gratify.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus

Undertakings from which foreign governments would shrink with dismay are here effected by the meeting of a few individuals.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

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

I shall, in the next place, speak something of my Undertakings, in writing the Lives of these Renowned Poets.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley