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He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.

Cannot find one this girdle to invest!

Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes

Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme

Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued,

Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]

For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.

The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.

When she related that a band of fanatics, after robbing a church of all its silver-plate, and burning the adjacent vicarage, drunk with their success, had invested the Castle, and cried aloud for ‘the man’ to be brought unto them, that he might be hewed to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal—[…]her young hearers felt a deep stirring of the heart,—a proud yet mellowed elation that never yet was felt by the reader of a written history, though its pages were as legitimate as any sanctioned by the royal licenser at Madrid.

From early on in his career, Zola's work as a critic revealed just how heavily he was invested in the literary “dream of stone.”