What if you did have to give up your expensive dresses, your fine house, your automobiles?
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer
It is a place that ‘grows upon you’ every day.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
And yet they grow upon you every day, } While you, to speak the best, are at a stay, } For sects, that are extremes, abhor a middle way: } } Like tricks of state, to stop a raging flood, } Or mollify a mad-brained senate's mood; } Of all expedients never one was good.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden
And they call to their brothers below, "Come and see; it looks as if our companions who go up yonder every day are making signs to us.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage
And yet they grow upon you every day, While you, to speak the best, are at a stay, 270 For sects, that are extremes, abhor a middle way.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
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