The islands being over-populated, and the farms so insignificantly small, it follows as a result that the inhabitants have to depend on external aid, and throw themselves, although reluctantly it may be, into the arms of a system which, however honestly conducted, has a tendency to hamper their movements, to bereave them of independence, and to plunge parents and their children into debt, out of which they may never be able to extricate themselves.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
It lacks permanence: misunderstandings can estrange us: slander can embitter us: death can bereave us.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
The ill I flee, the good that I believe, In thee, fair lady, lofty and divine, Thus hidden lie; and so that death be mine Art, of desired success, doth me bereave.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow