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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The man answered, Because I fear that this burden is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet.
 * But he said, That can by no means be; you dwell, said he, in the City of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and, dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone:  be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.
 * There you shall not see again such things as you saw when you were in the lower region upon the earth, to wit, sorrow, sickness, affliction, and death, for the former things are passed away.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon. But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast!