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 * 1678 — John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * True, there are, by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and substantial steps, placed even through the very midst of this slough; but at such time as this place doth much spew out its filth, as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or, if they be, men, through the dizziness of their heads, step beside, and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there; but the ground is good when they are once got in at the gate.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
 * "All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."


 * 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
 * But the fare was of the most substantial kind—not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper!