No wells had as yet been dug, and no drinking water was obtainable nearer than Wessel's Farm, seven miles away.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Rage and anger, and their physical expression, become by habit a sort of joy, similar to the joy in intoxication, but if only the habit can be formed the other way there is an equal joy obtainable from self-restraint.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
This man's life was one long record of an infinity of short loans, and its problem was the advancing of the smallest conceivable sums on the largest obtainable security.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan