Within the last few months, by merely saying a word to a distinguished personage at the War Office, Mrs. Maule had been able, so she quite believed, to advance Bayworth Kaye materially-to procure him, that is, a post on which he had set his heart, and for which he was eminently fitted.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
But she began to implore him to intercede for her yet once more with the Government, to procure permission for her to go to Smain.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Value is constituted in every object by its possession of two characteristics: 1st, that it is socially useful; 2nd, that it costs some labour or trouble to procure it.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae