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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, as he was sleeping, there came one to him, and awaked him, saying, Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise. [Prov. 6:6] And with that Christian started up, and sped him on his way, and went apace, till he came to the top of the hill.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan — to an ant or a flea — such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.