To read anything earlier than Shakespeare would require us to delve too deeply into linguistic bygones.

Left thus to myself in some degree, I unclosed the leaves of the bookcase, and surveyed its grim array of "classics"all new and unmarked by any name, or sign of having been readand from them I selected a few worthies, through whose pages I delved drearily and industriously, and most unprofitably it must be confessed.

And after giving this distracted exclamation for every answer, she would continue the process of delving eagerly into the former life of her lover.

She read Hebrew with ease, and had delved extensively in Jewish literature, besides being familiar with the monumental works in German devoted to Jewish history and opinions.

Bancroft was a pioneer, breaking the way ponderously perhaps, but he delved faithfully.

I have never been orthodox; I am not even now an orthodox theosophist; I am not of the stuff which can fall into line and accept things from others; it seems as if I must always think for myself, delve painfully, with blood and tears, for Truth.

Science has dealt and delved patiently with the laws of matter.

In this field he is like a miner delving underground, sending up masses of mingled earth and ore; and the reader must sift all this material to separate the gold from the dross.

In the eighty lines of the Ode to a Nightingale, we may note the "full-throated ease" of the nightingale's song, the vintage cooled in the "deep-delved earth," the "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" of the beaker "full of the warm South," "the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine," the sad Ruth "amid the alien corn," and the "faery lands forlorn.

Oh deep-delved And strongly-guarded mansion!