Avoid overtilling the soil, as this may damage it.

The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.

He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.

A jolly place, said he, in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curst. ...