Citations:things


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down.
 * If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster-shell; If things that promise nothing do contain What better is than gold; who will disdain, That have an inkling of it, there to look, That they may find it?
 * Now, my little book, (Though void of all these paintings that may make It with this or the other man to take) Is not without those things that do excel What do in brave but empty notions dwell.


 * 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.
 * Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then?
 * It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.