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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So after he had received and given many wounds to those that attempted to keep him out, he cut his way through them all [Acts 14:22], and pressed forward into the palace, at which there was a pleasant voice heard from those that were within, even of those that walked upon the top of the palace, saying —
 * Christian then seeing them lie in this case went to them, if peradventure he might awake them, and cried, You are like them that sleep on the top of a mast, for the Dead Sea is under you — a gulf that hath no bottom. [Prov. 23:34] Awake, therefore, and come away; be willing also, and I will help you off with your irons.
 * Now, about the midway to the top of the hill was a pleasant arbour, made by the Lord of the hill for the refreshing of weary travellers; thither, therefore, Christian got, where also he sat down to rest him.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "There's the Parrot!" cried Scrooge. "Green body and yellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head; there he is!
 * Master Scrooge's trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep: the quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.
 * Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them!


 * 2021, Denis Cosnard, A Paris, la ligne 14 du métro en plein essor, la 13 toujours aussi chargée, (5 March 2021);
 * Sur le quai de la station Place de Clichy, ce jeudi 4 mars après-midi, Laaouni est enthousiaste. « La 14, c’est top !, s’exclame ce vieil habitué du métro parisien. Aucun souci, jamais. Les rames sont parfaitement à l’heure. Les nouvelles stations, magnifiques. Remerciez-les, à la RATP ! »