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• It may contain, also, a small closet, 3 feet square. —  Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
• But it contains, in the next place, what Rome does not contain--perfect examples of the great twelfth-century Lombardic architecture, which was the root of all the medićval art of Italy, without which no Giottos, no Angelicos, no Raphaels would have been possible: it contains that architecture, not in rude forms, but in the most perfect and loveliest types it ever attained--contains those, not in ruins, nor in altered and hardly decipherable fragments, but in churches perfect from porch to apse, with all their carving fresh, their pillars firm, their joints unloosened. —  A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
• This is equivalent to saying that the more clay they contain, the better will the white clover grow in them Where the humus soils of the prairies are deep and are underlaid with clay, white clover will grow much better in the subsoil, if laid bare, than in the surface soil. —  Clovers and How to Grow Them
• A motto should contain, as in a nutshell, the contents, or the character, or the drift, or the animus of the writing to which it is prefixed. —  Apologia pro Vita Sua
• His four great volumes on the exposition of the moral law are fascinating as much for the quotations of other moralists which they contain, as for the actual theories of the saint himself. —  Mediaeval Socialism

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