It is, taken by itself, destructive nourishment.

But those who labour in the field to shovel the clods of earth to History, would be wiser of their fellows for a minor dose of it.

Mr.Howell Edwards consulting with Mr.Owain Wythan on the necessity, that the earl should instantly keep his promise to appear among the men and stop the fermentation, as in our younger days a lordly owner still might do by small concessions and the physical influence--the nerve-charm--could suppose him to be holding aloof for his pleasure or his pride; perhaps because of illness or inability to conceive the actual situation at a distance.

He mentioned the presence of the countess, and Mr.Wythan mentioned it, neither of them thinking a rational man would so play the lunatic as to let men starve, and wreck precious mines, for the sake of avoiding her.
Sullen days went by.

On these days of the slate-cloud or the leaden-winged, Carinthia walked over the hills to her staring or down-eyed silent people, admitted without a welcome at some doors, rejected at some.