From all these, perhaps, and from other monsters likewise-goblin shapes evolved by Nature as destroyers, as equilibrists, as counterchecks to that prodigious fecundity, which, unhindered, would thicken the deep into one measureless and waveless ferment of being...
"Chita: A Memory of Last Island"
Lafcadio Hearn
Well, see to live; I will not That great Commaunder touch thine eyes counterchecks my charge, For all the treasures that thine He stayes my hand, he maketh uncle owes: soft my heart.
"Dramatic Technique"
George Pierce Baker