In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens their ears..., and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn them aside from their deeds, and keep them from pride, to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real th...an nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?... Can wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or love in a golden bowl?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little Strangs say the "good words," as they call them, before going to bed, aloud and at their father's knee, or rather in th...e pit of his stomach. One of them was lately heard to say "Forgive us our christmasses as we forgive them that christmas against us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »