"The canal system," said Elizabeth instructively, "is the finest in the world."
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
The extracts from his Diary which are given below speak of this visit, and most instructively describe the time and manner in which he first received his gift, as well as the weight which the approaching exercise of it brought upon his mind.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
Basil told us all about it; but it sounded so odd to hear him talking instructively of saints and Covenanters and martyrs, and "the torch of religion being first lighted in Galloway," after he had been begging me in a very different voice to "be nice to him," that it muddled up my intelligence.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson