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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * 3. I find that holy writ in many places Hath semblance with this method, where the cases Do call for one thing, to set forth another; Use it I may, then, and yet nothing smother Truth's golden beams: nay, by this method may Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.
 * Nay, but do thou come with thy neighbour, Pliable; there are such things to be had which I spoke of, and many more glorious besides.
 * And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest.
 * "How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day."
 * Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.