He turned into a side gallery that led into a grovy part of the garden, grading insensibly into the park proper.

Who knows but they might come and fire a backshot at us, before we could get home; and then the devil take us, if the chance wouldn't be that some of us would'nt get home at all, at all.

As regards “famines and floods,” these have long been considered “Acts of God.”

Which impreparation and unreadiness when then they find in us, they turn it to the soothing up of themselves in that cursed fancy, whereby they would fain believe that the hearty devotion of such as indeed fear God is nothing else but a kind of harmless error […]