It would never corrupt, and might even serve to fertilize that simple heart, which, out of its very simplicity, had made for itself a passing idol out of what was essentially fake and base, which would have shortly crumbled to pieces out of its own baseness, had not Fate-or Providence-with kindly cruel hand forever thrown it down.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
She has raised a flame in me which, if encouraged, might fertilize or desolate kingdoms.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Beginning in 1880 to macadamize three or four miles of road a year with an annual fund of $10,000, the county now has over a hundred miles of splendid roads; the county seat has increased in population from 5,000 to 30,000. "I know of a thirty-acre farm," said President Barringer of the University of Virginia, a native of that county, "that cost ten dollars an acre, and forty-six dollars an acre has been refused for it, and yet not a dollar has been put on it, not even to fertilize it.
"The Future of Road-making in America"
Archer Butler Hulbert