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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Am I afraid to say, that holy writ, Which for its style and phrase puts down all wit, Is everywhere so full of all these things — Dark figures, allegories?
 * 1. I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude In handling figure or similitude, In application; but, all that I may, Seek the advance of truth this or that way Denied, did I say?
 * Truly, said Christian, I have said the truth of Pliable, and if I should also say all the truth of myself, it will appear there is no betterment betwixt him and myself.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * "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.