After Admiral Shefter was forcibly retired and shut up in an insane asylum, I disappeared and turned into a civilian contragravity-lifter operator at the Malverton Navy Yard.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
Humility, the worship of the Ideal-that is, of the man Christ Jesus, is the only lifter-up of the head.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald