And therefore, since thou loath'st etherial light, The morning sun shall beat on thy black brows; The breath thou draw'st shall be of upper air, Hostile to thee, and to thy earthy make; So light, so thin, that thou shalt starve for want [168] Of thy gross food, till gasping thou shalt lie, And blow it back all sooty to the sky. — from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden
so long as business is brisk
These people have no dislike to it at all: it is right enough to them, and so long as business is brisk they are happy. — from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
securely low and barricaded in by
The arrangement was satisfactory, albeit the “gentleman” with whom I shared appeared, to nose and eyes, rather well soused, as they say; but fortune had favored me—across the aisle, only a couple of seats beyond, I glimpsed the top of a golden head, securely low and barricaded in by luggage. — from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
so long and being in business
Could there have been anything like her present disjointed volubility in the fascinations that had captivated him? ‘Indeed I have little doubt,’ said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, ‘that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she’s not a Pagodian dissenter.’ — from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
so long as both its banks
But so long as both its banks from the thirty-first degree of latitude southward to the Gulf remained foreign territory, it was of the last importance to the Southern States, whose territory extended to the Mississippi, that the right of way should not be surrendered. — from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
ships lying at Blavet in Brittany
On a sudden, Soubise, a powerful Huguenot nobleman with a fleet of his own, swooped down upon some of the king's ships lying at Blavet, in Brittany, and carried them off as his prize. — from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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