They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat.

He can charge the Angel themselves (who may be the Heavens in the fore-mentioned place) with folly, Job 4. 18. because though they never sinned, yet they are sinnable; 'tis possible they might sin, as some of their order have done, if not kept from it by confirming grace.

I lay Turpentine all over the same: then I overwhelm a broader pipe about the first

The athletes must run over the bridge to reach the finish line.