He was more interested in men than materials.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
At last, when neither her father nor her mother returned and she could bear her own thoughts no longer, she brought drawing materials down from the studio and spread them out on the dining room table.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
What he thought and felt, hoped, feared, or wished, are the materials by which he is to be judged; and so we leave his cause in his own hands.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever