with these means

We thought it our duty to provide ourselves with these means of defence, though we had some reason to believe that the generosity of our enemies had, in a great measure, rendered them superfluous.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Why is it, with these means of amassing and guarding wealth, that we are so poor and paltry?

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

The prevailing morals correspond with these means of education. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley

Verres came back amply provided with these means of securing his safety.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church