Complaining prolongs one’s pain.

In 1624, the Dutch established themselves on Fischer's I., one of the Pescadore group, in order to control the coast trade of Fuhkien province.

[T]he two Syndicks and the reſt of the Magiſtrates of that City began to pry more narrowly into their ſtay, and more neerely into their actions; […]

In the Middle Ages Rhabdomancers were employed to discover mines, and the whereabouts of precious stones.