Going in one way and returning by the other adds a pleasing variety to the trip, which by starting early in the morning can be satisfactorily consummated in a single day.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
These humiliations will endure until your state is in some degree perfected; after which they will become more and more slight, and only at intervals, until the death and burial is consummated.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham
It is a living organism, not a dead aggregate, and its music is the expression of the law of its growth; so that it could no more be set to a different melody than could a rose-tree be consummated with lilies or violets.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell