Hopes, feelings, and passion, petrify one after another; the crust of experience soon hardens over the hidden past; and who, looking on the levelled and subdued exterior, could dream of the wreck and ravage that lies below?

[…] all the spoilings, thefts, burnings of houses and towns, and murders of innocent people, perpetrated by their wicked and inhuman corsairs on our coasts […]

[…] I wiped my nose for the last time and turned off the Dylan-N-Asher 4ever playlist I had going on my iPod.

in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals