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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
 * Here also was more fully recorded the acts that he had done, and the names of many hundreds that he had taken into his service; and how he had placed them in such habitations that could neither by length of days, nor decays of nature, be dissolved.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again.
 * "This court," said Scrooge, "through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length of time. I see the house.