things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

“Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!”

“He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain a…”

“Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, o…”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infe…”