(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep although it must be confessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil- begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) No wonder that a fear of the French power lay deeply in the hearts of the most gallant men, and that fear should, as it always does, beget a bitter and rancorous hatred. (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “I will tell you,” said Holmes, “and the reason why I tell you is that I hope frankness may beget frankness.”
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