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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?

CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away , and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there , to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.

1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.

Here we were obliged to come to an anchor, and here we lay, the wind continuing contrary—viz. at south-west—for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river.

We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship till we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea. I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.

And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.

If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale." — IBID. "HISTORY OF LIFE AND DEATH."

"By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State — (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man." — OPENING SENTENCE OF HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN.

"... and the breath of the whale is frequently attended with such an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain." — ULLOA'S SOUTH AMERICA.

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1663, The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto‎, page 285:

There is moreover in the woods marvelous ſtore of Braſil and Ebony, wherewith an hundred Juncks are every year laden to be tranſported to China, Hainan, the Lequios, Camboya and Camphaa ;
1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World‎, 3rd edition, →OCLC, page 441:
The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.
1953, Mao Tse-tung, “Mao Tse-tung's Tribute to Stalin”, in Current Soviet Policies‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254:
Following the doctrine of Lenin and Stalin, relying on the support of the great Soviet state and all the revolutionary forces of all countries, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people gained an historic victory a few years ago.
1972 May 28, 3:30 from the start, in President Nixon addresses the Soviet People live from the Kremlin‎, spoken by Richard Nixon, archived from the original on 22 December 2015:
We have agreed on joint ventures in space. We have agreed on ways of working together to protect the environment, to advance health, to cooperate in science and technology. We have agreed on means of preventing incidents at sea. We have established a commission to expand trade between our two nations. Most important, we have taken an historic first step in the limitation of nuclear strategic arms.
2022 June 29, David Pakman, 0:00 from the start, in Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agent, Smeared Ketchup on Wall‎, archived from the original on 30 June 2022:
Well yesterday was an historic day. Uh, there was last minute testimony scheduled in the January 6th committee from a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.

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1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Numbers 24:8:
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
(Can we date this quote?), John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders; Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative‎, →OCLC, page 84:
My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know
'How vain that second life in others' breath,
The estate which wits inherit after death!'
And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.
1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile‎, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.
1974 January [1973], Chang-Hung Chou, Yea-Tzer Chung, “The Allelopathic Potential of Miscanthus Floridulus”, in Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica‎, volume 15, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
An unique pattern of herb exclusion by a dominant species of Miscanthus floridulus is found ubiquitiously throughout the Island. […]
There is an unique pattern of herb exclusion by the Miscanthus stands, which occupies a large area in the mountains, particularly in Nankang, suburb of Taipei.
1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Hening, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu‎, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 160:
An Uighur boy steps forward, carrying an instrument, a rahab. He sings a ballad: “We follow Chairman Mao.”
1998, Paul M. Edwards, The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography‎, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
A very interesting history of United Nations at war in Korea, done in an unique question and answer style.
2010, Casey Anderson, The Story of Brutus‎, New York: Pegasus Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:
Brutus gets excited when we pull his trailer up. He knows he is going somewhere and that he is going to have an unique experience that will leave him stimulated and fulfilled.
2010, Larry Hochman, The Relationship Revolution‎, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
To this day, ‘Winning for Customers’ still stands out as an unique example of a company deciding that, if customer loyalty was to become a reality, everyone had to own it: pilots, caterers, engineers, reservationists, cabin crew, cleaners, drivers — every single person had to understand the economics of customer loyalty and their individual role in making it happen.
2010 March 22, Paul Taylor, “Greece Debates Revive Old European Fears and Resentments”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-04-03, Inside Europe:
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.
2011, CaseBase: Case Studies in Global Business‎, →ISBN, page 144:
Second, according to an United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees in the Near East report (UNRWA, 2006) the initial design and drawings used by construction companies can be improved.
2019 November 21, “Don't miss the 'Mini Town' Christmas Lighting event”, in Aruba Today‎, →OCLC, page A16:
What does a small house, a lighthouse, a candy shop and toys have to do with an utility company? Find out this Friday November 22nd, 2019.
2021 April 13, Neil Vigdor, “Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 14, 2021, U.S.‎:
In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.
2024 February 14, Lawrence O'Donnell, 0:29 from the start, in Lawrence: Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to move fast on Trump. Nixon case is proof they can.‎, MSNBC, archived from the original on February 15, 2024:
Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.

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