Eustacegaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvithgaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring;[…]
May that groundgape, and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!
1653,Henry More,An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London:[…] Roger Daniel,[…],→OCLC:
Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of theperpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by thegaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place.
