Citations:channel


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For, thought I, some, I see, would have it done, Though others in that channel do not run: To prove, then, who advised for the best, Thus I thought fit to put it to the test.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Accordingly, I let myself down into the water, and swam across the channel, which lay between the ship and the sands, and even that with difficulty enough, partly with the weight of the things I had about me, and partly the roughness of the water; for the wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high water it blew a storm.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.